[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Wed Feb 6 12:07:48 PST 2019


On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 11:56 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> On 2/6/19 11:44 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 11:34 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> > Great, that tree now against a somewhat old gnu-efi though.
> > 
> > To build against >= 3.0.8 I need to do:
> >         #gnu-efi >= 3.0.8 has memset/memcpy defined causing multiple syms errors
> >       sed -i 's/LDFLAGS =/LDFLAGS = -z muldefs /' mk/efi.mk || die "sed muldefs failed"
> > 
> 
> Should be a trivial fix by simply omitting those from the
> syslinux-provided library functions on EFI.

Yes, but I don't know the code that well so I took the easy way :)

Also, syslinux overides/omits xFLAGS(CFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc.) so one cannot
pass own flags. Would be nice if one could disable Warnings that are harmless. 

Jocke



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