[ipxe-devel] needed libraries?

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Mon Sep 14 22:08:46 UTC 2015


On 14/09/15 15:42, Ben Hildred wrote:
> Thanks to your hint about the bfd issue, I was able to track down emails
> from 2001 ending with
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2001-10/msg00399.html where they
> fixed the dependency bug in bfd that made it necessary for applications
> using libbfd to also need libiberty, So if we are using a recentish
> version of libbfd we can drop the workaround from commit 7d36a1b as it
> is no longer needed, but we should probably also document that it may be
> needed for old versions of libbfd.

Thanks.  I've removed the explicit -liberty: we'll find out if this 
causes problems for anyone:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/40a9a0f

> On an unrelated note, I cannot pass the captcha on the wiki.

Sorry about that.  If you let me know your choice of username, I'll set 
it up manually.

Michael



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