[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] boot/syslinux: fix build with binutils note gnu property section

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Christian, All,

On 2019-04-04 23:40 -0700, Christian Stewart spake thusly:
> This fixes the following build error with newer binutils:
> 
>   objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
>   perl /build/syslinux/src/syslinux/mbr/checksize.pl mbr.bin
>   mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)
> 
> Corresponding bug reports:
> 
>  - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60405
>  - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906414
> 
> Strips the .note.gnu.property in the linker scripts for the MBRs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in>

Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  ...h-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 boot/syslinux/0014-Fix-build-with-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch
> 
> diff --git a/boot/syslinux/0014-Fix-build-with-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch b/boot/syslinux/0014-Fix-build-with-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..fedd815691
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/boot/syslinux/0014-Fix-build-with-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +From beb526ca925983c7da229043790ecd552d910650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in>
> +Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 23:24:31 -0700
> +Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with binutils note gnu property section
> +
> +This fixes the following build error with newer binutils:
> +
> +  objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
> +  perl /build/syslinux/src/syslinux/mbr/checksize.pl mbr.bin
> +  mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)
> +
> +Corresponding bug reports:
> +
> + - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60405
> + - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906414
> +
> +Strips the .note.gnu.property in the linker scripts for the MBRs.
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in>
> +---
> + mbr/i386/mbr.ld   | 1 +
> + mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld | 1 +
> + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> +
> +diff --git a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
> +index d14ba802..53683461 100644
> +--- a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
> ++++ b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
> +@@ -70,4 +70,5 @@ SECTIONS
> +   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
> +   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
> +   /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
> ++  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.gnu.property) }
> + }
> +diff --git a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
> +index ae27d49a..b8c0d895 100644
> +--- a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
> ++++ b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
> +@@ -69,4 +69,5 @@ SECTIONS
> +   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
> +   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
> +   /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
> ++  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.gnu.property) }
> + }
> +-- 
> +2.21.0
> +
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 

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