On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:35 PM H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:> > On 2/6/19 9:17 AM, Joakim Tjernlund via Syslinux wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 16:00 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > >> On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: > >>> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> It has been the case for quite a while that the master tree is > >>> unambiguously better than 6.03. I have thus tagged and pushed out a > >>> syslinux-6.04-pre2 release, however, due to the issues with continuing > >>> to keep the main archive on kernel.org, I have moved the release archive to: > >> > >> Please add a non ancient gnu-efi snapshot too. > >> > >> Jocke > > > > You vill need two commits( Update the longjump calls to fit the new declaration, The VPrint definition is now part of the exports of gnu-efi) > > from https://github.com/joakim-tjernlund/syslinux/commits/master > > to build against a modern gnu-efi > > > > Hi, > > I merged your tree and added the install patch on top of it. Thank you! > > -hpaIs 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. -- -Gene
On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 06:12 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:35 PM H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux > <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > On 2/6/19 9:17 AM, Joakim Tjernlund via Syslinux wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 16:00 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: > > > > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > It has been the case for quite a while that the master tree is > > > > > unambiguously better than 6.03. I have thus tagged and pushed out a > > > > > syslinux-6.04-pre2 release, however, due to the issues with continuing > > > > > to keep the main archive on kernel.org, I have moved the release archive to: > > > > > > > > Please add a non ancient gnu-efi snapshot too. > > > > > > > > Jocke > > > > > > You vill need two commits( Update the longjump calls to fit the new declaration, The VPrint definition is now part of the exports of gnu-efi) > > > from https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjoakim-tjernlund%2Fsyslinux%2Fcommits%2Fmaster&data=02%7C01%7CJoakim.Tjernlund%40infinera.com%7C1ac2ccd0f5564ac2d22508d68ced2bac%7C285643de5f5b4b03a1530ae2dc8aaf77%7C1%7C0%7C636851347604674569&sdata=ltPHXQ%2FYUrmkdUgoCFJgGLiPFl%2F1xJUUob5y88p9FN8%3D&reserved=0 > > > to build against a modern gnu-efi > > > > > > > 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. Jocke
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. There is a good reason we snapshot gnu-efi as opposed to using whatever version the user has... -hpa