[syslinux] New gnu-efi release (3.0.5)

[Ady Ady]

> Hi together,
> 
> The gnu-efi project released in January a new version: 3.0.5.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to find a release-note or such.
> 
> Fact is, syslinux has some difficulties building with that version.
> 
 
Syslinux's devs might or might not reply to your email, so here are 
some comments, FWIW.

If you mean that you have gnu-efi v.3.0.5 installed in your system and 
you are assuming that Syslinux is using your local gnu-efi version as a 
building dependency, such assumption is probably incorrect.

Generally speaking, the gnu-efi submodule in Syslinux points to a 
specific gnu-efi commit, and does not care (much) about which version 
of gnu-efi you have installed in your system.

At the time I am writing this email, the gnu-efi submodule in Syslinux 
is pointing to the following gnu-efi commit:

 ab54e2b40e914d0ca01dc3d44c8d4eb8517bf999 

"Initialize Status before calling GrowBuffer()"
2014-Feb-13
[ab54e2]

The above gnu-efi snapshot is being used in Syslinux since 2014-Feb-22.

At this moment, the latest upstream gnu-efi commit is dated 2017-Jun-01 
(more than 125 new gnu-efi commits since [ab54e2]).

If you are using git and you have customized the gnu-efi submodule in 
Syslinux so as to point it to a newer gnu-efi commit, you might also 
want to look at the 'efi/*gnu-efi*.sh' scripts in Syslinux's source 
code.

Regards,
Ady.