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- For creators of Linux distributions:
-
- SYSLINUX is a notoriously hard program to debug, since it runs outside
- of any operating system, and has a tendency to expose BIOS and
- hardware bugs on various systems. Therefore, I would appreciate if
- you would resist the temptation of recompiling the SYSLINUX bootloader
- itself (ldlinux.asm) if at all possible. If you do that, I will have
- to refer any bug reports I receive back to the respective distributor.
-
- However, I have no such concerns about recompiling the installer
- programs, and in fact, with both libc 5 and libc 6 in common use in
- the Linux world today I understand if you wish to relink the
- Linux-based installer against your system version of libc. Therefore
- a special makefile targets "make installer" has been included with the
- SYSLINUX distribution, starting with version 1.42.
-
- To rebuild the installer programs *only*, starting from a freshly
- untarred distribution copy of SYSLINUX, do:
-
- make clean
- make installer
-
- If you want to remove all intermediate files, including the ones
- obtained from assembling ldlinux.asm and which are included in the
- distribution, do "make spotless".
-
- I appreciate your assistance in this matter.
-
- H. Peter Anvin
-
-