[syslinux] build problems with 6.04-pre1

Gene Cumm
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:58:04 -0000

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:48 AM, gabriele balducci via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> hello
>
>> apologies if I'm missing something here
>
> I must really apologise for the noise
>
> I eventually found the origin of the problems mentioned in my previous
> post, and the culprit wasn't syslinux!
>
> I use a script to build and install syslinux and in this script I was
> exporting a FIRMWARE variable like this:
>
>      export FIRMWARE="bios"
>
> A variable called FIRMWARE is also used in syslinux's Makefiles and
> having it defined (to "bios") in the environment caused the
problems.
>
> Changing FIRMWARE to GB_FIRMWARE in my script fixed everything and
> build/install completed without a glitch (as always).
>
> I can add that I was using this script since quite a long time and never
> experienced problems: 6.04-pre1 must have introduced some change in
> some  Makefile that  caused the  problems.

http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/commit/c7e6d511df730b26336ea2c24020a058aad6be1d

> Again, I'm very sorry for the noise
>
> thanks a lot for maintaining and making publicly available syslinux

Thanks for the feedback.  In the past, if a target was specified, it'd
spawn unnecessary make instances.  I believe this commit was intended
to help with this.

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-Gene