[syslinux] Patch: Building syslinux on gcc 4

Andreas Kotes count-linux at flatline.de
Tue Feb 6 15:04:06 PST 2007


Hello,

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20070206 22:51]:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> > It's part of GCC 4.1, http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html, based on
> > IBM's Pro Police.
> > 
> > It's on by default at least in Ubuntu, but not in Fedora.
> > 
> > Syslinux build system has gcc_ok that can be used for checking
> > -fno-stack-protector, no?
> 
> At least some of the Makefiles do, yes, and that's what needs to be used.
> 
> Overall I'd like to clean up the Makefiles, but who knows when I'll have 
> a chance...

oh yes, please do :) do you want any assistance from me/us? :)

   Andreas

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