Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] syslinux: rewrite recipe so only target code is x86-specific

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 15:02 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> Currently the syslinux recipe set COMPATIBLE_HOST to 32/64-bit x86.
> Whilst this makes sense for the target binaries as syslinux is
> x86-specific, this also affects the native recipe which should be able
> to be built on non-x86 build hosts (for example, arm64 build host,
> qemux86 target).
> 
> syslinux itself has a somewhat fragile build system but with care it is
> possible to build the installer for native/nativesdk, and the bootloader
> for target.  Despite claims the documentation to the contrary, not all
> of the bootloader is shipped precompiled in the tarball which does
> complicate matters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
> ---
>  .../syslinux/syslinux_6.04-pre2.bb            | 80 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Something isn't quite right in this series:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/87/builds/1654/steps/14/logs/stdio

(and all the other selftests in that build)

Cheers,

Richard