Bug 11756

Summary:	package/syslinux: MBR's don't fit because of binutils new .note.gnu.property section
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Christian Stewart <christian>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Christian Stewart 2019-04-05 06:18:31 UTC

Corresponding bug reports:

 - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60405
 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906414


Build failure: 

workspaces/qemu/host/bin/x86_64-buildroot-linux-gnu-ld  -T workspaces/qemu/build/syslinux-6.03/mbr/i386/mbr.ld -e _start -o mbr.elf mbr.o                                                
objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
perl workspaces/qemu/build/syslinux-6.03/mbr/checksize.pl mbr.bin
mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)
make[7]: *** [workspaces/qemu/build/syslinux-6.03/mbr/Makefile:42: mbr.bin] Error 1


Description:

objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
perl /build/syslinux/src/syslinux/mbr/checksize.pl mbr.bin
mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)

Fixed in Archlinux32 by stripping the .note.gnu.property in the linker scripts
of the MBRs.

Comment 1 Peter Korsgaard 2019-04-07 09:56:09 UTC

Fixed in git, thanks:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=0ca17cdc925124d1b309788518e9d4834b9b2557