[Buildroot] [PATCH 7/9] boot/syslinux: bump version

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Apr 28 06:14:52 UTC 2014


On 25/04/14 00:30, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> 
> This new version has a very, very weird build system. There are different
> images that syslinux can now build:
>   - the plain legacy-bios images we already supported previously
>   - two new EFI32 and EFI64 applications
> 
> To build one or the other, the Makefile accepts one or more of:
>     make (bios|efi32|efi64)
> 
> Specify all of them, and it builds all. Specify 'install', and it installs
> all of them, as one may expect.
> 
> Still a regular behaviour, is to build only a subset (down to one):
>     make bios           <-- builds just the legacy-bios images
>     make efi32 bios     <-- builds just the legacy-bios and efi32 images
> 
> Where it gets weird is the install procedure. Can you guess how it's done?
> Hint: the syslinux guys have invented the multiple-argument parsing in
> pure Makefiles. To build then install only the bios images, one would do:
>     make bios
>     make bios install
> 
> Yep, that's it. make bios install. Two arguments, one action.
> 
> That makes for some funky workarounds in our install procedure...
> 
> 'bios' is the only image we support so far, with efi to come in a future
> patch.
> 
> Using MAKE1, as there are issues with highly-parallel builds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth at troodon-software.com>
> ---
>  boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> index a1eb394..bec132f 100644
> --- a/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> +++ b/boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk
> @@ -4,32 +4,48 @@
>  #
>  ################################################################################
>  
> -SYSLINUX_VERSION = 4.07
> -SYSLINUX_SOURCE  = syslinux-$(SYSLINUX_VERSION).tar.bz2
> -SYSLINUX_SITE    = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/4.xx/
> +SYSLINUX_VERSION = 6.02
> +SYSLINUX_SOURCE  = syslinux-$(SYSLINUX_VERSION).tar.xz
> +SYSLINUX_SITE    = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
>  
>  SYSLINUX_LICENSE = GPLv2+
>  SYSLINUX_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
>  
>  SYSLINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES = YES
>  
> -SYSLINUX_DEPENDENCIES = host-nasm host-util-linux
> +SYSLINUX_DEPENDENCIES = host-nasm host-util-linux host-upx
> +
> +# The syslinux tarball comes with pre-compiled binaries.
> +# Since timestamps might not be in the correct order, a rebuild is
> +# not always triggered for all the different images.
> +# Cleanup the mess even before we attempt a build, so we indeed
> +# build everything from source.

 Do we really need to build everything from source? We anyway already
check that our host compiler can build for ia32, so the included
executables will work.

> +define SYSLINUX_CLEANUP
> +	rm -rf $(@D)/bios $(@D)/efi32 $(@D)/efi64
> +endef
> +SYSLINUX_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += SYSLINUX_CLEANUP
>  
>  # syslinux build system has no convenient way to pass CFLAGS,
>  # and the internal zlib should take precedence so -I shouldn't
>  # be used.

 Actually, I'm not sure if this comment is still true. I haven't checked
in 6.02, but 4.07 already had a MYCFLAGS variables that can probably be
used. Also, the HOST_LDFLAGS may no longer be needed.

>  define SYSLINUX_BUILD_CMDS
> -	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) CC="$(HOSTCC) -idirafter $(HOST_DIR)/usr/include $(HOST_LDFLAGS)" AR="$(HOSTAR)" -C $(@D)
> +	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE1) CC="$(HOSTCC) -idirafter $(HOST_DIR)/usr/include $(HOST_LDFLAGS)" \
> +	    AR="$(HOSTAR)" -C $(@D) bios
>  endef
>  
>  define SYSLINUX_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
>  	# While the actual bootloader is compiled for the target, several
>  	# utilities for installing the bootloader are meant for the host.
> -	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) INSTALLROOT=$(HOST_DIR) install
> +	# Repeat the target, otherwise syslinux will try to build everything
> +	# Repeat CC and AR, since syslinux really wants to check them at
> +	# install time

 These comments should come before the define, otherwise they'll be
printed while building.


 Regards,
 Arnout

> +	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE1) CC="$(HOSTCC) -idirafter $(HOST_DIR)/usr/include $(HOST_LDFLAGS)" \
> +	    AR="$(HOSTAR)" INSTALLROOT=$(HOST_DIR) \
> +	    -C $(@D) bios install
>  endef
>  
> -SYSLINUX_IMAGES-$(BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX_ISOLINUX) += core/isolinux.bin
> -SYSLINUX_IMAGES-$(BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX_PXELINUX) += core/pxelinux.bin
> +SYSLINUX_IMAGES-$(BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX_ISOLINUX) += bios/core/isolinux.bin
> +SYSLINUX_IMAGES-$(BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX_PXELINUX) += bios/core/pxelinux.bin
>  
>  define SYSLINUX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
>  	for i in $(SYSLINUX_IMAGES-y); do \
> 


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