[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Feb 7 13:14:09 PST 2019


On 2/7/19 4:03 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 

-z muldefs would bloat the libraries unnecessarily, but worse it might
mask real errors.

There is a good reason we snapshot gnu-efi as opposed to using whatever
version the user has...

	-hpa




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