[ipxe-devel] FTBFS config/local/colour.h: No such file or directory

[Geert Stappers]

Hello,


Reporting a  fails to build from source  error

22:00 -!- rustyaxe [**redacted**] has joined #ipxe
22:01 < rustyaxe> Just pulled git and hitting In file included from
  core/ansicol.c:32: ./config/colour.h:36:10: fatal error:
  config/local/colour.h: No such file or directory
Day changed to 19 apr 2026
07:09  * stappers thinks: Most likely that rustyaxe meanwhile found what
  to do in addition to `git clone $URL`, `cd ipxe/src` and`make`.
07:37 < rustyaxe> stappers: for now just touch'd the file and it seems
  to build, but wont be able to test if its actually usable til
  tomorrow. never had to fool with that before
08:27 < stappers> Returning to the good habit of reading documentation
  is a way to avoid  "had to fool with	...."
08:31 < rustyaxe> https://ipxe.org/download - the documentation there
  seems the same as last time i built ipxe a long time ago.
08:32  * stappers tries to reproduce
08:34 < rustyaxe> looks like just a new include maybe got missed in a
  checkin but havent dug into it much. it built after just touching it
  so seems theres defaults for whatever would have been defined in there
08:35 < stappers> fatal: destination path 'ipxe' already exists and is
  not an empty directory.
08:35  * stappers contineus to try to reproduce
08:36 < stappers> Before I forget: rustyaxe: Thanks for reporting
08:36 < rustyaxe> yw, looks like a lot of new features since i last
  rebuilt the pxe environment here
08:37 < rustyaxe> just did git clone ...; cd ipxe/src; make
08:38 < stappers> % ls -l config/local/colour.h
08:38 < stappers> -rw-r--r-- 1 stappers stappers 0  4 jul  2019 config/local/colour.h
08:39 < stappers> % mv config/local/colour.h{,.not_now}
08:43 < stappers>   ....
08:43 < stappers>   [FINISH] bin/ipxe.lkrn
08:43 < stappers>   [GENFSIMG] bin/ipxe.iso
08:43 < stappers> util/genfsimg: could not find isolinux.bin
08:43 < stappers> make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile.pcbios:68: bin/ipxe.iso] Error 1
08:44 < stappers> That is a different error
08:49  * stappers reports the rusty axe error to the iPXE mailinglist


Groeten Geert Stappers
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