Mailing List Archive: SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4

SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4

Dec 14, 2007, 12:36 AM

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I grabbed the new SYSLINUX 3.54, but it refuses to build on my RedHat RHEL4
system:

# make
set -e ; for i in mbr ; do make DATE=0x47606c42 HEXDATE=0x47606c42 -C $i all ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
gcc -m32 -ffreestanding -march=i386 -Wa,-a=mbr.lst -c -o mbr.o mbr.S
as: option `-alternate' doesn't allow an argument
make[1]: *** [mbr.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
make: *** [all] Error 2

RHEL4 has this GCC compiler:
# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)

Is there any fix or workaround ?

--
Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark,

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Re: SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4 [ In reply to ]

stappers at stappers

Dec 14, 2007, 4:28 AM

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Op 14-12-2007 om 09:36 schreef Ole Holm Nielsen:
> I grabbed the new SYSLINUX 3.54, but it refuses to build on my RedHat RHEL4
> system:
>
> # make
> set -e ; for i in mbr ; do make DATE=0x47606c42 HEXDATE=0x47606c42 -C $i all ; done
> make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
> gcc -m32 -ffreestanding -march=i386 -Wa,-a=mbr.lst -c -o mbr.o mbr.S
> as: option `-alternate' doesn't allow an argument
> make[1]: *** [mbr.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> RHEL4 has this GCC compiler:
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
>
> Is there any fix or workaround ?

gcc version four piont something (4.x) ?

Geert Stappers
( not aware of which version of gcc is shipped with RH4 )

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Re: SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4 [ In reply to ]

hpa at zytor

Dec 14, 2007, 9:57 AM

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Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> I grabbed the new SYSLINUX 3.54, but it refuses to build on my RedHat RHEL4
> system:
>
> # make
> set -e ; for i in mbr ; do make DATE=0x47606c42 HEXDATE=0x47606c42 -C $i all ; done
> make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
> gcc -m32 -ffreestanding -march=i386 -Wa,-a=mbr.lst -c -o mbr.o mbr.S
> as: option `-alternate' doesn't allow an argument
> make[1]: *** [mbr.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> RHEL4 has this GCC compiler:
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
>
> Is there any fix or workaround ?
>

It's an issue with gas, not with gcc.

If you remove the -Wa,-a... argument from mbr/Makefile you can probably
get it to build. -a is supposed to be list file, not "-alternate".

-hpa

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Re: SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4 [ In reply to ]

hpa at zytor

Dec 14, 2007, 10:50 AM

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>> I grabbed the new SYSLINUX 3.54, but it refuses to build on my RedHat RHEL4
>> system:
>>
>> # make
>> set -e ; for i in mbr ; do make DATE=0x47606c42 HEXDATE=0x47606c42 -C $i all ; done
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
>> gcc -m32 -ffreestanding -march=i386 -Wa,-a=mbr.lst -c -o mbr.o mbr.S
>> as: option `-alternate' doesn't allow an argument
>> make[1]: *** [mbr.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/syslinux-3.54/mbr'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> RHEL4 has this GCC compiler:
>> # gcc --version
>> gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
>>
>> Is there any fix or workaround ?
>>
>
> It's an issue with gas, not with gcc.
>
> If you remove the -Wa,-a... argument from mbr/Makefile you can probably
> get it to build. -a is supposed to be list file, not "-alternate".
>

Anyway... the obvious workaround is to use "make installer" (see
distrib.doc). You shouldn't need to rebuild the distributed binaries on
an old system.

-hpa

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Re: SYSLINUX doesn't build on RedHat 4 [ In reply to ]

Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik

Dec 16, 2007, 2:10 AM

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> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> > Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>>> >> I grabbed the new SYSLINUX 3.54, but it refuses to build on my RedHat RHEL4
>>> >> system:
...
>> > It's an issue with gas, not with gcc.
>> >
>> > If you remove the -Wa,-a... argument from mbr/Makefile you can probably
>> > get it to build. -a is supposed to be list file, not "-alternate".

Yes, that fixes "make" on RedHat RHEL4. Thanks a lot.

> Anyway... the obvious workaround is to use "make installer" (see
> distrib.doc). You shouldn't need to rebuild the distributed binaries on
> an old system.

Thanks. I just needed a few SYSLINUX binaries for PXE booting and I didn't
realize that distrib.doc contained information relevant for me. Turns out
that I probably don't need to "make" at all ! I'm trying to document
the use of PXELINUX for administrators of Linux clusters, see
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/PXE-booting (comments welcomed :-).

/Ole

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