From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:15:56 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] Build error with the master branch In-Reply-To: <4D41533B.7090905@denx.de> References: <4D41533B.7090905@denx.de> Message-ID: <4D41C46C.6010405@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Le 27/01/2011 12:12, Stefano Babic a ?crit : > On 01/27/2011 08:42 AM, Jason Liu wrote: >> Hi, There, >> > > Hi Jason, > >> >> I found this error is related with the following commit: >> >> commit 8aba9dceebb14144e07d19593111ee3a999c37fc >> >> Are you aware of that? > > I can confirm this problem, and it is relevant for arm only. > As far I can understand at the moment, it is due to the -pie settings in > arch/arm/config.mk. > > However, it is not to me clear because -pie is added to PLATFORM_LDFLAGS > and not to LDFLAGS_u-boot. Also before the patch the -pie option is used > only for linking u-boot at the end of the build process and not for > partial linking. Probably does it come when we used libraries instead of > objects ? > > Setting LDFLAGS_u-boot in arch/arm/config.mk to -pie and removing it > from PLATFORM_LDFLAGS removes the build error. Not yet tested, anyway. > > Best regards, > Stefano Babic -pie is used to generate the ARM ELF relocation tables in U-Boot, and should indeed be used only for the final stage linking; so moving it to LDFLAGS_u-boot is sensible. Amicalement, -- Albert.