Re: [PATCH] ipxe: fix compilation issues with some gcc versions

[Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>]

On 16/12/2011 13:04, "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> wrote:

> 2011/12/16 Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>:
>> On 16/12/2011 12:50, "Roger Pau Monne" <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
>>> # Date 1324039730 -3600
>>> # Node ID 8c0ce135cda382630adc72d64757ec64854ba696
>>> # Parent  b60667a56ae085ee2bcea896887d0907fb86af41
>>> ipxe: fix compilation issues with some gcc versions
>>> 
>>> Backported some changes from current ipxe, to fix a issue with some
>>> new versions of gcc that add -fPIC by default, and compilation fails
>>> with the following error:
>> 
>> Is there a newer release tag on the ipxe repo that we could build instead,
>> that would automatically get us these fixes?
> 
> No, latest tag (almost two years ago) is 1.0.0, which is the one we
> are currently using.

Perhaps we should pick a recent commit hash to clone, then? There's plenty
going on in there development-wise, which would surely have warranted a
release or two; it just looks like they couldn't be arsed to tag releases.
Hanging on to a two-year-old version and building up a backport queue
doesn't make sense. At the very least we should do this in xen-unstable, and
get some testing done of recent ipxe upstream.

 -- Keir