[Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: install helper programs to the host

[Yann E. MORIN]

Frank, All,

On 2014-04-21 10:55 -0400, Frank Hunleth spake thusly:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > Frank, All,
> >
> > On 2014-04-21 10:30 -0400, Frank Hunleth spake thusly:
> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> >> > As I am also working on this, if you just posted your changes (on the
> >> > list on in a public git tree), I can incorporate your changes I am
> >> > missing, and submit those.
> >>
> >> I've attached my current progress just in case there's something of
> >> use, but I suspect that you're farther along.
> >
> > Woot! :-) In fact, you are farther than me! I still did not had a need
> > for usl of upx.
> 
> Just a note, I've convinced myself that there's no way that upx will
> do the right thing on cross-compiled executables. I suspect that it
> will work on my x86 setup since the host and target are the same
> architecture, but not in general. I didn't get far enough to verify it
> though.

Well, syslinux is only for the x86 world anyway, and it is only
buildable on a x86 machine as well (since it uses the host compiler).

> > This patch is missing your SoB. Could you just resend with your SoB
> > added? Then I'll handle all the nitty-gritty work of finishing this, and
> > pushing upstream.
> 
> Done! And thanks. Let me know if I can help by testing anything in my setup.

Thanks for this bootstrap code! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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