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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Apr 20 00:05:27 CEST 2011


Dear Joakim Tjernlund,

In message <OFC5A52DF3.355573B0-ONC1257877.0078430F-C1257877.0078910D at transmode.se> you wrote:
>
> > 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.

Yes, but you yorself pointed out that commit 337f5f5 missed a large
number of boards, leaving the tree in a inconsistent state. Should we
not revert that one as well?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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