My, my, my... Is not the obvious bug obvious? :) Well, that this is bad perl is obvious. That it actually does fix this reported bug isn't so much, but if you try to do
make bin/version.82540em.rom.o in the src dir you'll find that this script bombs out. Fixing it gets you a happy fun package (in my case a custom one of latest git flavours - same code exists in the official package). --- ipxe-1.0.0+git-20160307.99b5216.orig/src/util/parserom.pl +++ ipxe-1.0.0+git-20160307.99b5216/src/util/parserom.pl @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ sub process_isa_rom { # Output Makefile rules for the specified ROM declarations sub print_make_rules { - my ( $state, my $image, my $desc, my $vendor, my $device, my $dup ) = @_; + my ( $state, $image, $desc, $vendor, $device, $dup ) = @_; unless ( $state->{'is_header_printed'} ) { print "# NIC\t\n"; print "# NIC\tfamily\t$state->{family}\n";