[syslinux] Status of syslinux git master

[Sebastian Herbszt]

hpa wrote:
> On July 7, 2019 8:37:10 AM PDT, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >Gene,
> >
> >it looks like the syslinux master branch is broken since February
> >[1]. Peter created the wip.makefixes branch but I wasn't able to get
> >it working (yet) and it lacks activity since March.
> >
> >I think it might be time to revert commit 458a54133ecd ("Fix all
> >warnings, and better separate code that should not be mixed") which
> >broke master. Then apply at least the outstanding patch "Force the
> >linker to put all sections into a single PT_LOAD segment" [2] from
> >Debian which is required for EFI. And maybe tag the result as
> >syslinux-6.04-pre4.
> >
> >[1] https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2019-February/026335.html
> >[2] https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-August/026167.html
> >
> >Sebastian
>
> Could you make a tree that I can pull?

A new temporary branch named 20190723 is now available at
git://repo.or.cz/syslinux/sherbszt.git

It contains the following commits:

d9374841 Add exp function
303c54a0 Some fixes from commit 458a5413
e8df886e Force the linker to put all sections into a single PT_LOAD segment
1a18b2ee Revert "Fix all warnings, and better separate code that should not be mixed"

Sebastian