Created attachment 458876 [details] emerge.info unetbootin-625 doesn't make usb sticks that are (bios) bootable for me any longer. 608 worked. I went digging through the source, and the problem appears to be that in 625 now when portage builds it, -DSTATIC is no longer included in the CFLAGS. It should be, per the instructions here: https://sourceforge.net/p/unetbootin/wiki/compile/ ) I rebuilt 608 from its ebuild, and DSTATIC does get included there. The consequence of not including DSTATIC is that unetbootin tries to run some internally packaged version of syslinux and fails silently, so no bootloader is installed on the usb stick. This issue doesn't matter if you're booting UEFI, but booting the usb stick on a bios system fails. I'm afraid I'm not ebuild-literate enough to see what the difference in the ebuilds is that causes the difference. As I build 608, the compile commands look like: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DNOSTATIC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -I. -I. -o unetbootin.o unetbootin.cpp but for 625: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -I. -I. -o unetbootin.o unetbootin.cpp emerge --info attached.
Created attachment 544740 [details] unetbootin-661.ebuild Yesterday, I tried to make a freedos usb stick though unetbootin-661: failure, did with the gentoo wiki approach. This bug let me find a fix for the current ebuild: inherit: add flag-o-matic src_prepare: add; append-cflags -DNOSTATIC append-cxxflags -DNOSTATIC Unetbootin qt5 flavour can create bootable sticks.
I just applied Samuel's suggested changes to the ebuild, and it fixes it for me. Any chance this could be applied?
Created attachment 558236 [details, diff] unetbootin-661.ebuild.patch If the patch has to be applied, i'll better send a diff than my local version of the ebuild ... Maybe when qt5 patch is merged upstream and/or 662 is released, it'll push some interest on updating the ebuild.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7c26355a62f1fb2109259931b8958358de4ed21c commit 7c26355a62f1fb2109259931b8958358de4ed21c Author: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-12-21 15:45:13 +0000 Commit: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-12-21 15:45:39 +0000 sys-boot/unetbootin: Fix finding syslinux Patch by Samuel Bauer Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/604812 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.52, Repoman-2.3.12 Signed-off-by: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> sys-boot/unetbootin/unetbootin-661-r1.ebuild | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+)
