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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun May 1 20:34:19 UTC 2016


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>
> ---
>  .../0001-Fix-gcc-5-ALIGN-causing-Boot-error.patch  | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 boot/syslinux/0001-Fix-gcc-5-ALIGN-causing-Boot-error.patch

Applied to master, thanks. I've amended the commit log to indicate that
it most likely fixes bug 8866.

Thanks!

Thomas
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