What does it take to get this into buster"? https://packages.debian.org/sid/syslinux-common
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 5:10 PM Lukas Schwaighofer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Carl, > > thanks for reporting! > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 00:15:21 -0600 > Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Undef symbol FAIL: memset > > Failed to load libcom32.c32 > > This is indeed a problem with the most recent syslinux version from > Debian. I introduced it by taking the gnu-efi 3.0.8 compatibility patch > from Ubuntu. I've just now uploaded a new version that should fix the > problem (Carl already tested it in a private conversation, thanks!). > > > @Mathieu: > Since you were the author if the patch that I took, I put you in CC. I > believe that all syslinux versions in Ubuntu that link against > gnu-efi >= 3.0.8 are affected as well. You can check by trying to use > the vesamenu.c32 module with the efi version of syslinux. I expect it > will fail with "Undef symbol FAIL: module memset". > > I'm now no longer filtering out the memset and memcpy implementations > from syslinux. Instead I pass -zmuldefs to the linker to avoid the > duplicate symbol linking error. That causes the linker to use the first > definition for memset and memcpy encountered which is the one from > syslinux. This fixes the problem. See > https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/syslinux/commit/2d1ebd6ab76fa39adb260a522e8da788d59bb5ec > for details. > > Regards > Lukas -- Carl K
