[ipxe-devel] infinite loop in makefile

[Christian Nilsson]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Walker, Scott <walker91 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> The repo I am using is http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git and the specific file
> that I want is ipxe.efi.
>

To build efi you want to specify make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi

> I upgraded to Make 4.1 and the build still loops infinitely in the [DEPS]
> section.

Asked for this on IRC but no reproduce yet, hopefully mcb can figure
out what is going on here.

>
> Specifying bin/ipxe.efi (or .pxe) still causes an infinite loop. I tried
> looking into your makefile but I can only pinpoint the function where the
> loop is happening, as the file is past my understanding of Make.
>
> The executable at boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.efi does not work because I can not get
> to the iPXE command line. Control-B causes the program to exit/crash.

What do you see when you get this crash? any chance of a screenshoot or photo?
One issue you might find in EFI is that some firmware implementations
does not send Ctrl, so Ctrl - B does not work.
A workaround for this is using Esc quickly followed by B instead:
https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/8dd39b

>
> thanks,
> Scott Walker
> walker91 at llnl.gov
>
>
> On 8/2/16, 12:10 PM, "Christian Nilsson" <nikize at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Walker, Scott <walker91 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I am indeed using the official iPXE git repo, trying to build iPXE, and all
> of our packages meet the requirements listed. Here is the output of my git
> log:
>
> git log
> commit 2afd66eb55996500499eb3bcc39c66ff042679c8
>
> …
>
>
> Running "git pull && make" loops infinitely whether or not I specify a –j#.
>
>
> What I'm trying to say here is that Github is not hosting the master
> repo, they are mostly in sync, but not always.
>
> Which file do you want?
> maybe you can specify it and have better luck, such as make bin/ipxe.pxe
>
> make clean && make works fine for me as well
> But that is using a more recent environment with make 4.1
>