[syslinux] Heads up on syslinux breakage in Ubuntu

William Kennington
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:51:33 -0000

Yes, we fixed this in nixos by building syslinux against gcc48 instead of
gcc5.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:50 AM Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com>
wrote:

>
> >
> > 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.
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