[Buildroot] Syslinux host and target build

[Buildroot] Syslinux host and target build

[Will Moore]

I use a syslinux host build to generate a bootable USB flash drive on to which I
install the buildroot built kernel and rootfs.

I also build syslinux for the target that I include in the buildroot rootfs to
allow the target device, as booted from the USB flash drive, to generate
bootable PATA (aka IDE) flash drives - a sort of self installer.

I would like to get buildroot to build the host and target syslinux for me.  I
am just not sure how to go about it!  I have tried adjusting the existing
syslinux.mk to make the SYSLINUX_BUILD/INSTALL_CMDS build for the target, added
HOST_SYSLINUX_BUILD/INSTALL_CMDS for a host build and added $(eval $(call
GENTARGETS,boot,syslinux,host)) but the host build doesn't seem to get run.  I
conclude I don't know what I am doing :)

I also believe that we are currently just calling "make" where as the syslinux
/doc/distrib.txt requests that we call "make clean" "make installer" instead.
 
Regards,

 

Will

[Buildroot] Syslinux host and target build

[Michael S. Zick]

On Wed October 26 2011, Will Moore wrote:
> I use a syslinux host build to generate a bootable USB flash drive on to which I
> install the buildroot built kernel and rootfs.
> 
> I also build syslinux for the target that I include in the buildroot rootfs to
> allow the target device, as booted from the USB flash drive, to generate
> bootable PATA (aka IDE) flash drives - a sort of self installer.
> 
> I would like to get buildroot to build the host and target syslinux for me.  I
> am just not sure how to go about it!  I have tried adjusting the existing
> syslinux.mk to make the SYSLINUX_BUILD/INSTALL_CMDS build for the target, added
> HOST_SYSLINUX_BUILD/INSTALL_CMDS for a host build and added $(eval $(call
> GENTARGETS,boot,syslinux,host)) but the host build doesn't seem to get run.  I
> conclude I don't know what I am doing :)
>
Try:
$(eval $(call GENTARGETS,host))

I think the recent infrastructure change included GENTARGETS.

Mike 
> I also believe that we are currently just calling "make" where as the syslinux
> /doc/distrib.txt requests that we call "make clean" "make installer" instead.
>  
> Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Will
> 
> 
> 
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[Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: add support for host-install

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be>

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
---
 Hoi Will,

 This patch (applied to the current HEAD) builds syslinux for the host.

 What is still missing from this is a way to have a Windows self-installer.
I've got a patch cooking for that too, but it's a hack: it copies the
precompiled syslinux.exe binary from the extracted tar file.

 Regards,
 Arnout
---
 boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
index fa5af07..66a7076 100644
--- a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
+++ b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
@@ -26,4 +26,20 @@ define SYSLINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
 	done
 endef
 
+
+HOST_SYSLINUX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += SYSLINUX_RM_MK_LBA_IMG
+
+define HOST_SYSLINUX_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)
+endef
+
+define HOST_SYSLINUX_INSTALL_CMDS
+	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) INSTALLROOT=$(HOST_DIR) install
+endef
+
+define HOST_SYSLINUX_CLEAN_CMDS
+	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean
+endef
+
 $(eval $(call GENTARGETS))
+$(eval $(call GENTARGETS,host))
-- 
1.7.7

[Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: add support for host-install

[Will Moore]

Hi Arnout,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) [mailto:arnout at mind.be]
> Sent: 26 October 2011 23:28
> Subject: [PATCH] syslinux: add support for host-install
> 
> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> ---
>  Hoi Will,
> 
>  This patch (applied to the current HEAD) builds syslinux for the host.

Thanks!

I can see some discussion on the mailing list of a few patches you have sent for
syslinux moving to v4.04 and adding the host build, but what is the status of
these?

> 
>  What is still missing from this is a way to have a Windows self-installer.
> I've got a patch cooking for that too, but it's a hack: it copies the
> precompiled syslinux.exe binary from the extracted tar file.

I can't see there is another way.  I have no interest in this personally but
would like to have a target build so my buildroot target can itself syslinux a
device to make it bootable.  I would suggest that these are both unusual versus
having a host build and so should be menu options.

> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> ---
>  boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> index fa5af07..66a7076 100644
> --- a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> +++ b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> @@ -26,4 +26,20 @@ define SYSLINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
>  	done
>  endef
> 
> +
> +HOST_SYSLINUX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += SYSLINUX_RM_MK_LBA_IMG
> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_BUILD_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)
> +endef
> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_INSTALL_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) INSTALLROOT=$(HOST_DIR) install
> +endef
> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_CLEAN_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean
> +endef
> +
>  $(eval $(call GENTARGETS))
> +$(eval $(call GENTARGETS,host))
> --
> 1.7.7

[Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: add support for host-install

[Will Moore]

Hi Arnout,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) [mailto:arnout at mind.be]
> Sent: 26 October 2011 23:28
> To: buildroot at busybox.net
> 
> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> ---
>  Hoi Will,
> 
>  This patch (applied to the current HEAD) builds syslinux for the host.
> 
>  What is still missing from this is a way to have a Windows self-installer.
> I've got a patch cooking for that too, but it's a hack: it copies the
> precompiled syslinux.exe binary from the extracted tar file.
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> ---
>  boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> index fa5af07..66a7076 100644
> --- a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> +++ b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> @@ -26,4 +26,20 @@ define SYSLINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
>  	done
>  endef
> 
> +
> +HOST_SYSLINUX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += SYSLINUX_RM_MK_LBA_IMG

What have you got defined for SYSLINUX_RM_MK_LBA_IMG?

> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_BUILD_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)

As per syslinux /doc/distrib.txt:

$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean
$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) installer

> +endef
> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_INSTALL_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) INSTALLROOT=$(HOST_DIR) install
> +endef
> +
> +define HOST_SYSLINUX_CLEAN_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean
> +endef
> +
>  $(eval $(call GENTARGETS))
> +$(eval $(call GENTARGETS,host))
> --
> 1.7.7