[arch-dev-public] syslinux 5.00 in [testing]

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 02:10:54PM +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> On Saturday 08 December 2012 14:07:16 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > The syslinux modules like the menu are no longer working. Other more
> > essential features like serial console might be broken as well. So it
> > might be better to pull that pacakge if we cannot fix this asap. The
> > install scripts needs to be adjusted as well; or better drop it
> > entirely.
> 
> I couldn't boot my system neither. I removed the package from [testing] until 
> we fix it properly.
> 
> -- 
> Andrea
> Arch Linux Developer

Playing with this in a VM -- I'm able to boot, but yes, there's massive
module borkage. This is probably going to suck from a distro level, as,
at a minimum, we need to recopy over the *.c32 modules in use, as well
as locate dependencies. Boo.

The root of the problem with modules is things like this:

$ readelf -d /lib/syslinux/menu.c32 | grep NEEDED
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [../../com32/libutil/libutil_com.c32]

I'm doubtful that this is intended. On a system without a separate
/boot, this means /com32 would need to exist as a toplevel dir. HPA
mentions the PATH directive for the location of the lib*.c32 files, but
that seems to have no effect here.

I'll keep playing with this, under the initial suspicion that perhaps
our build is baroque.

d