[syslinux] Heads up on syslinux breakage in Ubuntu

Ady
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:38:09 -0000

>
> Just a heads up that syslinux is broken in the current Ubuntu, syslinux
> just shows "Boot error". Downgrading to syslinux from 15.04 works
perfectly.
>
> Ubuntu bug is here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1499746
>
> This is mostly in case anyone shows up on the mailing list with a
> mystery broken syslinux from latest Ubuntu.
>
>

Just a hunch: this might be related to gcc5+.

FWIW, Fedora 23 is out this week, and it includes (at least some)
patches in its Syslinux package for (better) compatibility with gcc5+.

Unfortunately, Syslinux's package maintainers are usually not very
active (for whichever reason), even less than the pace of upstream
development.

Regards,
Ady.