From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:34:31 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v5] syslinux: build with the target toolchain In-Reply-To: <20170411094551.404b3adb@armant.office.greenbone.net> References: <1491473086-16647-1-git-send-email-benoit.allard@greenbone.net> <1491555913-7951-1-git-send-email-benoit.allard@greenbone.net> <20170408160825.1891b903@free-electrons.com> <20170411094551.404b3adb@armant.office.greenbone.net> Message-ID: <20170412103431.33f1d053@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:45:51 +0200, Beno?t Allard wrote: > > Applied to master, thanks. Now, could you try to submit those patches > > to the upstream project? > > I'm on it, unfortunately, the traction is not very high. I feel like I > opened one of those can of worms that have been tackled over and over > again without reaching a satisfactory solution (autoconf ?!). The first > answer I got was 'stop assuming everyone has needs similars to yours', > I'm now waiting on further one. > > You can follow the show over there: > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2017-April/ Thanks for doing this work. I think your reply is good, and hopefully will make the syslinux developers change a bit their mind. If not, then fine, we can keep the patches in Buildroot. I at least would like people to try upstreaming the patches, and make reasonable efforts, which you did. Thanks a lot! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com