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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Draszik <git@andred.net>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:55:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] syslinux: always use the BFD linker
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On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 21:49 -0500, Allen Wild wrote:
> Syslinux compiles successfully with Gold, but at runtime Isolinux fails
> to boot, getting stuck at the version screen without loading the menu.
> Forcing the BFD linker fixes this.
> 
> To future-proof, use an inline python replace rather than duplicating
> the definition of LD in bitbake.conf

Hm, other recipes that have this need typically simply do:

LDFLAGS_append = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', ' -fuse-ld=bfd ', '', d)}"

Would a similar approach work here, too? Instead of this big change.

Cheers,
Andre'
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