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 <jpelt...@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 <jpelt...@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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ipxe-devel mailing list >> ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org >> https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel >> >> >> >> >> -- >> James A. Peltier >> IT Services - Research Computing Group >> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus >> Phone : 604-365-6432 >> Fax : 778-782-3045 >> E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca >> Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices >> Twitter : @sfu_rcg >> Powering Engagement Through Technology >> > > > > -- > There is never time enough to do it right, but there always seems to be > enough time to do it again. > > > > > -- > James A. Peltier > IT Services - Research Computing Group > Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus > Phone : 604-365-6432 > Fax : 778-782-3045 > E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca > Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices > Twitter : @sfu_rcg > Powering Engagement Through Technology > -- There is never time enough to do it right, but there always seems to be enough time to do it again.
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