[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] [BUILD] Remove libraries when updating autoconf.mk

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20071121162424.22535.14889.stgit at trillian.cg.shawcable.net> you wrote:
> From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> 
> Fix library problems caused by conditional compilation.  Using
> autoconf.mk to decide which files to compile has caused a problem when
> changing configuration from one board to another without clearing out
> the library (*.a) files.
> 
> It used to be that the linker was always passed the same list of .o
> files when building the .a files.  However, that is not longer true
> with conditional compilation.  Now, a different board config will have
> a different file list passed to the linker.  The problem occurs when
> a library has already been built and the board config is changed.
> 
> Since the linker will update instead of replace a preexisting library,
> then if the file list changes to remove some object files the old
> objects will still exist in the library.
> 
> The solution is to remove all old library files when autoconf.mk is
> made.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>

Merged into u-boot-testing repo.   Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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