Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] boot/grub2: fix build issue since 2.14 version bump

[Julien Olivain via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

On 08/08/2026 15:00, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> Since the bump of grub2 to version 2.14, the build fails on some
> configurations with:
> 
> /home/autobuild/autobuild/instance-8/output-1/host/bin/grub-mkimage: 
> error: 
> `/home/autobuild/autobuild/instance-8/output-1/build/grub2-2.14/build-i386-pc/grub-core//kernel.img' 
> is miscompiled: its start address is 0x9074 instead of 0x9000: ld.gold 
> bug?.
> 
> We are not the only ones affected: OpenEmbedded has the issue as well,
> addressed in commit
> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/66aefeca482e2985fef5b936ff611ba8b7f81b85,
> and this commit points that libreboot and Gentoo have also adopted the
> same temporary fix: revert two upstream commits.
> 
> So to fix the issue in Buildroot, we take the same approach. It is
> temporary, and there is an upstream patch series under discussion to
> really fix the problem. But as this series has 9 patches still under
> discussion, we take the simpler approach of reverting two simpler
> patches for the time being.
> 
> host-pkgconf is needed as an additional dependency because
> configure.ac using m4 macros provided by host-pkgconf.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   
> https://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/89b/89b907278cada3d7ca1fee2d08d66921ffb4d7cc/build-end.log
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

Applied to master, thanks.
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