[ipxe-devel] make giving segfault

[Michael Brown]

On 04/10/17 08:41, Christian Hesse wrote:
> "brent s." <bts at square-r00t.net> on Mon, 2017/10/02 13:23:
>> Thanks, Michael. It seems to be the linking throwing the segfault
>> (reformatted for readability):
>>
>> ld \
>>    -m elf_i386 \
>>    -N --no-check-sections \
>>    --section-start=.prefix=0 \
>>    --gc-sections \
>>    -static \
>>    -o bin/usbdisk.bin \
>>    --oformat binary \
>>    -e 0 \
>>    bin/usbdisk.o
>>
>> I've attached an strace, which I hope helps, but unfortunately I don't
>> know C so I'm not sure how else I can help.
> 
> This is a binutils issue, I could successfully build iPXE after downgrading
> binutils to version 2.28.0-4. I did no further investigation, though.

This should now be fixed:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/2bb4ec1

Thanks,

Michael