[ipxe-devel] infinite loop in makefile

[Walker, Scott]

Hi Christian,

Using ³make bin-x86_64/ipxe.efi² still causes the infinite loop, but
thanks for pointing that out, if I get the makefile working I will
definitely need the 64 bit version.

Trying Esc-B worked to get to the command line. My UEFI bios does use the
Ctrl key normally but I am accessing the BIOS remotely through an RMM card
which does indeed require the Esc key instead.

The binary works for now but I will probably need to compile iPXE from
source eventually so it would be great to know if anybody finds a solution
to the Makefile problem.

thanks,
Scott Walker
walker91 at llnl.gov

On 8/2/16, 2:33 PM, "Christian Nilsson" <nikize at gmail.com> wrote:

>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
>>
>> Š
>>
>>
>> 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
>>