[Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: fix boot hang when host-gcc is 5.3

Frank Hunleth fhunleth at troodon-software.com
Sun May 1 18:38:27 UTC 2016


Hi Thomas,

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sun,  1 May 2016 11:58:07 -0400, Frank Hunleth wrote:
> > Syslinux uses the host version of gcc to build to bootloader. On systems
> > with gcc 5.3, this results in a bootloader that hangs. This issue has
> > been addressed in upstream syslinux, but an official release has not
> > been made yet. This commit adds the upstream patch to fix the issue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth at troodon-software.com>
>
> Thanks! Do you think this could fix bug
> https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8866 ?

Yes, I'm pretty sure that this patch will fix it. I added a comment to
the bug report.

Frank


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