[U-Boot] [PATCH v1] Makefile: Don't generate position independent code

[Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>]

Hi Andy,

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2018 08:55 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 19:32 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>> On 08/06/2018 07:11 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 18:56 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08/06/2018 06:00 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>>>>> Fix all these by disabling PIE on Makefile level.
>>>>>>> With the patch building with gcc-8.1 works on i386.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it mean you are actually run it and it works?
>>>>
>>>> Can you confirm that binary you got is working for you?
>>>
>>> I can start qemu-x86_defconfig and run bootefi selftest with your patch.
>>>
>>> odroid-c2_defconfig can boot both with either booti or bootefi with your
>>> patch.
>>
>> Thanks for testing!
>
> Bin, can we get this applied? For now (*) it's a bit of burden to run
> make CC=gcc-7 each time I would like U-Boot to be built.
>

This was not assigned to me in patchwork. But yes, I can take this one
via the x86 tree.

Heinrich,

I assume I can add your "Tested-by" tag since from patchwork I don't
see this patch has any tags associated. Let me know if this is OK.

> (*) It seems Debian (-like) distros, one of which we are using as an
> OS on build machines, switched to gcc-8 by default and this is a
> problem for native compilation.
>
> --

Regards,
Bin