[syslinux] syslinux-6.04-pre2

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 21:49 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund via Syslinux wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 13:14 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> Looking into the debian patches posted here I see that not using -z muldefs causes
> bugs. I think you should just use muldefs and report the duplicated memset/memcpy syms
> in gnu-efi as an bug as gnu-efi has no business defining these, its a lib.

ehh, there a bug already. Created by me some time ago. Completely forgot about that :)
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