[U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday, November 08, 2010 17:04:32 Sebastien Carlier wrote:
> This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead of
> creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
> linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended. 
> This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
> cmd_link_o_target (added at the end of config.mk and used in all
> Makefiles) is inspired.

linux takes it a step further ... it partially links everything into one .o 
before turning that into the final ELF.  why dont we do the same (partially 
link everything into u-boot.o and then just do u-boot.o->u-boot) ?  it should 
allow us to drop the start/end group flags in the process.
-mike
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