[Buildroot] [PATCH v5] syslinux: build with the target toolchain

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Fri,  7 Apr 2017 11:05:13 +0200, Beno?t Allard wrote:
> Until now, the host toolchain was used to build syslinux, as it was
> not possible to build a 32-bit syslinux with a x86-64 toolchain.
> 
> However, syslinux requires gnu-efi, and gnu-efi is built using the
> target toolchain. Mixing different toolchains doesn't work well, so
> this commit changes the syslinux package to use the target toolchain
> for syslinux as well. This is made possible by patches
> 0003-Fix-ldlinux.elf-Not-enough-room-for-program-headers-.patch and
> 0004-memdisk-Force-ld-output-format-to-32-bits.patch.
> 
> Since syslinux also contains some utilities that have to run on the
> host, those have to continue being built with the host toolchain,
> which requires patch 0005-utils-Use-the-host-toolchain-to-build.patch.
> 
> Patch 0006-lzo-Use-the-host-toolchain-for-prepcore.patch is about
> building prepcore, another utility with the host toolchain as it is
> required at build-time.
> 
> This was tested using a Buildroot's built x86_64 toolchain, and
> checked that the output binaries are 32-bits. It was tested as well if
> they actually boot on hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beno?t Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
> 
> ---

Applied to master, thanks. Now, could you try to submit those patches
to the upstream project?

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
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