From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 13:13:06 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] syslinux fails to build In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20120704131306.46f9e3bd@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:53:30 +0100, Aras Vaichas a ?crit : > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/aras/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp' > ./mk-lba-img lba.img > ./mk-lba-img: 1: ./mk-lba-img: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > make[3]: *** [lba.img] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/home/aras/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp' > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/aras/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/syslinux-4.04/diag' > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/aras/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/syslinux-4.04' > make: *** [/home/aras/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/syslinux-4.04/.stamp_built] > Error 2 > > Is this a known problem? Not to my knowledge, but I don't use syslinux myself. The bump to 4.04 was done by Arnout Vandecappelle in January this year, so maybe he will comment on this. > > I bumped the version to 4.05 but compilation fails. I researched the > problem and found a patch that makes the build work: > > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/mwjwm6LzqZy83B2DDQIJ > > Shall I submit a patch for: > > * the bump to 4.05, > * the patch to make 4.05 compile (which would be a copy of the patch > from Geert Stappers) ? Yes, please submit a patch doing both. Thanks a lot! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com