[syslinux] without msdos filesystem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Devel.html#id2956225
> 
> <quote>
> Fedora developers have introduced changes in the ELF .hash section that
> provides symbols for dynamic linking. This new .gnu.hash section, which
> is produced with the new default --hash-style=gnu option for gcc, serves
> the same purpose as previous hash sections. It provides, however, an
> approximately 50% increase in dynamic linking speed. Binaries and
> libraries produced with the new hashing function are incompatible with
> older glibc and dynamic linker releases. To use the old-style hashing
> routines for compatibility with older glibc-based systems, pass the
> --hash-style=sysv option instead.
> </quote>
> 
> There's also --hash-style=both, that should add both hashes. From
> gcc -dumpspecs (did just now an yum update), the default hash style is
> "gnu", not "both". 
> 

Well, that's stupid in the extreme.

	-hpa