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charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "buildroot" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_EF,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 Hi Alexander, Thomas, Everyone, On 2026-10-26 20:45, Alexander Sverdlin wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Sun, 2026-10-25 at 21:36 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 12:08:44AM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote: >> > The revision to build comes from Archlinux syslinux package, the archive >> > from debian (to save time for git clone). >> > >> > Add patch fixing passing &load_error_buf to setjmp()/longjmp(), rejected >> > since gcc 14 made -Wincompatible-pointer-types an error by default. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin >> >> Does it make sense to keep syslinux? Even Wikipedia says it's >> "discontinued". Do you still use it? > > I'll be fine having it downstream. I just thought, there is still an > interest [1] in this update ;-) Yes, there is still interest in this software, and I sadly mourn the absence of the don't-delete-host-syslinux patch. I did not reply earlier, because Thomas already did a deep dive. Just some formal things: You might take a look at the output of check-package: $ utils/check-package boot/syslinux/* boot/syslinux/0005-lzo-Use-the-host-toolchain-for-prepcore.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) boot/syslinux/0011-extlinux-Use-the-host-toolchain-to-build.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) boot/syslinux/0013-Fix-build-with-gnu-efi-version-3.0.9.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) boot/syslinux/0014-Fix-build-with-binutils-note-gnu-property-section.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) boot/syslinux/0016-Workaround-multiple-definition-of-symbol-errors.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) boot/syslinux/0017-Replace-builtin-strlen-that-appears-to-get-optimized.patch:0: missing Upstream in the header (https://nightly.buildroot.org/#_additional_patch_documentation) 1137 lines processed 6 warnings generated These should either be added to the .packageignore file or a "Upstream: N/A, dead" line, similar to 0023-com32-chain-chain.h-use-proper-type-in-struct-data_a.patch:21. A few of the existing patches should be rebased for 6.04, they do not apply cleanly: >>> syslinux bf6db5b4 Patching <...> Applying 0011-extlinux-Use-the-host-toolchain-to-build.patch using patch: patching file extlinux/Makefile Hunk #2 succeeded at 53 (offset 1 line). Applying 0013-Fix-build-with-gnu-efi-version-3.0.9.patch using patch: patching file mk/lib.mk Hunk #1 succeeded at 188 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 198 (offset -5 lines). <...> Applying 0016-Workaround-multiple-definition-of-symbol-errors.patch using patch: patching file com32/cmenu/Makefile patching file com32/elflink/ldlinux/Makefile patching file com32/gpllib/Makefile patching file com32/hdt/Makefile patching file core/Makefile Hunk #1 succeeded at 158 (offset -6 lines). patching file dos/Makefile patching file efi/Makefile Hunk #1 succeeded at 71 (offset 1 line). <...> Kind regards, Andreas > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aq62x3ovAUoc_Lmn@windsurf/ > > -- > Alexander Sverdlin. _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot