[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 06:12 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:35 PM H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> > On 2/6/19 9:17 AM, Joakim Tjernlund via Syslinux wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 16:00 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote:
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> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > It has been the case for quite a while that the master tree is
> > > > > unambiguously better than 6.03. I have thus tagged and pushed out a
> > > > > syslinux-6.04-pre2 release, however, due to the issues with continuing
> > > > > to keep the main archive on kernel.org, I have moved the release archive to:
> > > > 
> > > > Please add a non ancient gnu-efi snapshot too.
> > > > 
> > > >  Jocke
> > > 
> > > You vill need two commits( Update the longjump calls to fit the new declaration, The VPrint definition is now part of the exports of gnu-efi)
> > > from https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjoakim-tjernlund%2Fsyslinux%2Fcommits%2Fmaster&data=02%7C01%7CJoakim.Tjernlund%40infinera.com%7C1ac2ccd0f5564ac2d22508d68ced2bac%7C285643de5f5b4b03a1530ae2dc8aaf77%7C1%7C0%7C636851347604674569&sdata=ltPHXQ%2FYUrmkdUgoCFJgGLiPFl%2F1xJUUob5y88p9FN8%3D&reserved=0
> > > to build against a modern gnu-efi
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I merged your tree and added the install patch on top of it.  Thank you!
> > 
> >         -hpa
> 
> Is it worth doing another -pre immediately since upgrading gnu-efi
> took such a large leap?  My thought is if someone has an issue with
> the new proposed -pre, they can try -pre2 with minimal differences to
> separate a gnu-efi related issue from others.

NP, but I would fix the link problem with gnu-efi >= 3.0.8 first, just adding a -z muldefs
will work for all versions I think.

 Jocke