Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 at 9:31 PM From: "Pierre Labastie" <[email protected]> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] unrecognised emulation mode On 05/02/2017 16:20, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Hi > > Trying to compile Syslinux-6.0.3 I'm getting the following error near the end > as the linker is employed: > > ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf_x86_64 > Supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux elf_iamcu elf32_x86_64 > /mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/com32/lib/Makefile:93: recipe for > target 'libcom32.elf' failed > make[4]: *** [libcom32.elf] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > '/mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/efi64/com32/lib' > /mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/com32/Makefile:7: recipe for target > 'lib' failed > make[3]: *** [lib] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > '/mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/efi64/com32' > /mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/Makefile:285: recipe for target > 'com32' failed > make[2]: *** [com32] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/efi64' > /mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03/Makefile:269: recipe for target > 'efi64' failed > make[1]: *** [efi64] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/home/cliffys/Downloads/syslinux-6.03' > Makefile:103: recipe for target 'all' failed > > Any hints here as to how I can get this through? > > I've tried CFLAGS and trying to change the linkers' emulation mode, but I'm > not fully understanding what's happening here. >
>I do not know syslinux, but from the directory names, it looks like it is >trying to build some 32 bit code. If your tool chain is 64 bit only, it cannot >work. If you do not need EFI, you may try to disable it, since the "com32" >directory seems to be in the "efi64" one. Thanks Pierre That's the thing, my LFS is 32bit and hence the linker is, that's what was confusing. Could I try any flags here to get it to compile? Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
