[U-Boot] non-needed objects added to resulting U-Boot image
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 15 12:51:54 CEST 2008
Dear "Roman Mashak",
In message <40a670230810141657m1e18f4efjedea1cab54149b2c at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > These libraries may be used in the link command of your image, but do
> > you actually see any unused objects included in your linked image?
> LIBS in Makefile incorporates all drivers, file systems etc., so
> 'make' command traverses through out the source tree and builds (in
> many cases the binaries contain only debug information). Isn't it
> reasonable to add a few variables, say in $(uboot)/config_user.mk,
> which will more precisely define what to build. Further,
Um... you didn't follow what's been going on in the Makefiles in the
last months, have you?
> It may slightly speed up a building process.
This is already being worked on, just differently (using kconfig
style).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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