[U-Boot] [PATCH] PowerPC: Move -fPIC flag to common place

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Tue Apr 19 23:56:54 CEST 2011


Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote on 2011/04/19 23:35:40:
>
> Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
>
> In message <OFC3D6185B.85DCE339-ONC1257877.007406B0-C1257877.00746A1D at transmode.se> you wrote:
> >
> > > Can you please provide a fix?  I'd like to get rid of this build error
> > > ASAP.  We could, of course, simply revert these commits.
> >
> > Grepping shows a boat load of u-boot.lds files under board.  I don't
> > have time to patch them all ATM. They really needs to be consolidated
> > somehow but that is over my head.
>
> That means I will revert the two commits?

One, you only claimed that:
> The -fPIC flag belongs with -mrelocatable, move it there.
> Also change -fPIC to -fpic as this produces smaller
> binaries.
> However, currently -mrelocatable promotes -fpic to -fPIC, a
> fix for this is in upcoming gcc 4.6 or you can apply this small
> patch to gcc:
Broke all those 8xx boards.

  Jocke



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