Re: GRUB 2.06

[Mike Gilbert]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:34 PM Didier Spaier <didier@slint.fr> wrote:
> So, it's hard to understand for many end users that:
>
> 1. The issue appeared after gcc-10 began to be used, well after the
> release of grub 2.04.
> 2. It has been fixed long ago.
> 3. But for the fix to be effective one of these conditions should be met:
> a. A new grub version has been released and is provided by the
> distribution they use.
> b. The distributon they use patches the source of GRUB 2.04 to bring the
> fix.
> c. The distribution they use provides a package build from a source
> pulled from with the patch already committed.
>
> Unfortunately if none of these conditions is met many users tend
> to blame GRUB instead of the distributions and go saying in fora "I'll
> avoid to use GRUB, it's broken"

My 2 cents:

If a distro starts shipping a new version of GCC, they should really
test their packages first and patch them as needed.

If an end user installs a new version of GCC manually, I would hope
they are smart enough to know that it might break things.

If an end user builds GRUB manually, they are also responsible for
applying any patches that are necessary for their toolchain.