[U-Boot-Users] Linker scripts, SEARCH_DIR and host directories

[kenneth johansson]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:34 +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using a new toolchain I am seeing the following warnings at the final
> link stage of U-Boot:
> 
> warning: library search path "/lib" is unsafe for cross-compilation
> warning: library search path "/usr/lib" is unsafe for cross-compilation
> warning: library search path "/usr/local/lib" is unsafe for cross-compilation
> 
> Looking further I can see in the u-boot.lds scripts that SEARCH_DIR is
> specifying each of these directories. I am unsure why a cross-compiled
> bootloader would specify that the linker should look in the hosts
> directories for libraries.
> 
> Can anyone explain this?
> 
> Thanks
> Rich

You should delete that from the linker script. There is several scripts
that has this error it's not needed and wrong as you suspected.