Syslinux - Nov 2011 - Building syslinux 4.04 on a 32bit system

I thougt somebody might like to know - I got a fresh copy of 4.04 from
http://www.kernel.org/ - when building on a 32bit system, the build
fails at first. I had to do a "make spotless" to get a successful
build. 

make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/per/workspace/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
./mk-lba-img lba.img
./mk-lba-img: ./mk-lba-img: cannot execute binary file
make[2]: *** [lba.img] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/per/workspace/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/per/workspace/syslinux-4.04/diag'
make: *** [all] Error 2

./mk-lba-img is a 64bit executable, presumably left by a previous build. 


/Per Jessen, Z?rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Jessen" <per at computer.org>
To: <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:55 AM
Subject: [syslinux] Building syslinux 4.04 on a 32bit system

> I thougt somebody might like to know - I got a fresh copy of 4.04 from
> http://www.kernel.org/ - when building on a 32bit system, the build
> fails at first. I had to do a "make spotless" to get a successful
> build.
>
doc/distrib.txt explain why it is recommended to compile only installer in
most cases.

On a 32bits system, it was working for me with 4.0.4-pre1{3,4} (which were
precompiled by a broken compiler) to compile again ldlinux.asm using make
spotless && make
I have actually no reason to recompile final 4.0.4 ldlinux.asm.

Gilles