<div dir="ltr">I was upgrading the version of ipxe that qemu uses on debian, so I started looking at the patches that debian applies. I think we want to act on both of them, but let's start with patch 0002 which drops the library dependency on iberty (per bug 730910) The patch simply drops the linking of the library completely, no code change just a one line change to linker flags in the makefile. Since this appears to work, do we want to follows suite or is the library used on some platforms? iberty is an internal compatibility shim from gcc (I think) and explicitly does not have a stable api. If we are using it I think we should have a close look at why, If not we should drop the linker flags.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>--</div><div><div>Ben Hildred</div><div>Automation Support Services</div></div><div>303 815 6721</div></div>
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