Syslinux - Jun 2017 - New gnu-efi release (3.0.5)

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:19:41 +0000
Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi together,
> > 
> > The gnu-efi project released in January a new version: 3.0.5.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to find a release-note or
> > such.
> > 
> > Fact is, syslinux has some difficulties building with that version.
> > 
>  
> Syslinux's devs might or might not reply to your email, so here are 
> some comments, FWIW.
> 
> If you mean that you have gnu-efi v.3.0.5 installed in your system
> and you are assuming that Syslinux is using your local gnu-efi
> version as a building dependency, such assumption is probably
> incorrect.
I've made sure that I'm building with the system version of gnu-efi and
not the included one.
> 
> Generally speaking, the gnu-efi submodule in Syslinux points to a 
> specific gnu-efi commit, and does not care (much) about which version 
> of gnu-efi you have installed in your system.
> 
Again, I'm not using the included version of gnu-efi. Else, I wouldn't
have noticed the compiling the errors, duh. The included version is
obsolete, and has a lot more bugs that the latest release.

I've got the necessary patches to make it work over here in the
meantime. They should appear on this list pretty soon. Please consider
them for integration, and maybe consider dropping the included version
of gnu-efi, or at least updating it.

Regards,
Ben.
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FWIW, there are commits in gnu-efi after version 3.0.5 that seem to be 
relevant to these proposed patches.

For example:
 
http://sf.net/p/gnu-efi/code/ci/bf07e8141777e5a2d67ec8447084215224bdad4b
 

One possibility could be to update the gnu-efi submodule in Syslinux so 
as to point at least to the above commit at the same time the Syslinux 
code is updated with the patches proposed here by Ben.

If the push is delayed, then a later/updated gnu-efi commit should 
rather be considered instead.

Regards,
Ady.

> FWIW, there are commits in gnu-efi after version 3.0.5 that seem to be 
> relevant to these proposed patches.
> 
> For example:
>  
> http://sf.net/p/gnu-efi/code/ci/bf07e8141777e5a2d67ec8447084215224bdad4b
>  
> 
> One possibility could be to update the gnu-efi submodule in Syslinux so 
> as to point at least to the above commit at the same time the Syslinux 
> code is updated with the patches proposed here by Ben.
> 
> If the push is delayed, then a later/updated gnu-efi commit should 
> rather be considered instead.
> 
 
FWIW, gnu-efi version 3.0.6 is out [1], including the aforementioned 
relevant patch - although, there seems to be no interest here in the 
Syslinux Mailing List :(.

[1]:
gnu-efi version 3.0.6, commit:
 
http://sourceforge.net/p/gnu-efi/code/ci/af5d1494a91617c87521101f6f5979d
fbd95903d/log 

Regards,
Ady.