Bug#994274: syslinux: FTBFS with gnu-efi 3.0.13

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

Hi Philipp,

thanks for the pointers, I'll try to test the alternative patch you've
suggested within the week.


On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 09:20:37 +0000

Apparently I cannot test this within qemu OVMF (per [3] and it also
didn't boot for me).

Interesting – this is how I tested syslinux efi builds in the past.
When filing this bug I was able to successfully boot with OVMF using
the builds currently installed in the archives, but not with the
freshly built versions.

Regards
Lukas

[Timo Lindfors]

Hi,

I was just bisecting this and noticed that EFI booting stops working if I
simply rebuild both syslinux 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3 and
gnu-efi 3.0.9-2.

If I rebuild only syslinux but use the gnu-efi package from the archive I can boot
successfully. This seems to indicate the that the boot issue is not
related to the new gnu-efi version but something different, possibly a
change in the toolchain.

-Timo