From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla at busybox.net Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:40:44 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] [Bug 13681] New: syslinux build install tools Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13681 Bug ID: 13681 Summary: syslinux build install tools Product: buildroot Version: 2021.02 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: Other Assignee: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org Reporter: moelzerjens at gmail.com CC: buildroot at uclibc.org Target Milestone: --- The way the syslinux install tools are currently built doesn't make a lot of sense imho: The only tool that's installed is extlinux and that is only built for the host. That's not really useful as extlinux needs root, so it can't cleanly be used to automatically generate disk images on the host. The syslinux/mtools-syslinux tools that could be used for disk image generation without root on the host are only built for the target and not installed (they can be found in the build folder). Therefore I propose the following improvements: 1) Provide an option to build extlinux for the target like the grub2 package "install tools" option (BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_INSTALL_TOOLS). 2) Build the syslinux/mtools-syslinux installer for the host to facilitate scripted disk image generation. It might be beneficial to integrate the syslinux patches from Yocto Project [1] that extend syslinux support to ext2/3/4 as well. [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.