[ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

[Matthew Helton]

James,

Agreed. Yes, and we need the requirements for GCC and other packages
updated as well. It's fine that a newer platform is needed, but it needs to
be documented.

Michael, Robin?

Matt


On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:12 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:

> The question is, is this intentional code breakage or a mistake?  Is
> CentOS 6 no longer supported as a build platform for iPXE?  Thankfully I
> also run an HPC cluster where I already had newer versions of GCC compiled
> for other things to test with or I wouldn't have found it so quickly.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> James,
>
> Thank you; it's fixed by migrating to a CentOS 7 build and gcc 4.8.3; as
> mentioned before in this list you need xz-devel installed or the make will
> croak at "util/zbin lzma.h: No such file or directory"
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:38 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
>
>> Ya, I have the same problem on a CentOS 6 box using the stock GCC,
>> however, newer versions of GCC, for example 4.9.2 do not exhibit the
>> problem.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> When making:
>>
>> $ make
>>   [DEPS] core/xferbuf.c
>>   [BUILD] bin/xferbuf.o
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> core/xferbuf.c: In function ‘xfer_buffer’:
>> core/xferbuf.c:312: error: value computed is not used
>> make: *** [bin/xferbuf.o] Error 1
>> $
>>
>> System GCC: gcc.x86_64                          4.4.7-11.el6
>>
>> Looks like a simple issue, but I'm not sure of the syntax;
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
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> James A. Peltier
> IT Services - Research Computing Group
> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
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