[OE-core] [PATCH] syslinux: always use the BFD linker

[Burton, Ross]

On 13 December 2017 at 02:42, Allen Wild <allenwild93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oops, forgot mail the list when sending my first reply.
>
> I tried appending LDFLAGS, but it doesn't work for syslinux. It's
> during do_install, not do_compile, that $(LD) is called directly to
> link libutil.elf, libcom32.elf, libgpl.elf, and ldlinux.elf.
>

That's a terrible implementation of "install" and it should be using
LDFLAGS, so that's an upstreamable patch.  As Andre says, adding the flag
to LD directly should work.

Ross
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