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

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote on 2011/04/20 00:41:01:
>
> Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
>
> In message <OFBC9C03BC.436C27C7-ONC1257877.00797190-C1257877.007A0FD7 at transmode.se> you wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > It is not too bad, just not complete yet. Reverting all just makes
> > it harder to get it all done.
> > I still don't get why it broke really.
> > hmm, did you by any chance include my patches to gcc too?
> > if so I you should only have to fixup arch/powerpc/config.mk:
> > - PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fpic -mrelocatable -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
> > - PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-msingle-pic-base,)
> > + PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fPIC -mrelocatable -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
>
> Can you please have a look at this yourslef?  You understand much
> better than me which of your patches are doing what, and how they
> might interact.
>
> I don't have the time to dig into this any deeper.  If we cannot find
> a quick solution, I suggest to back out all this stuff and redo once
> the problems have been sorted out.  Sorry for applying the stuff to
> mainline without more thorough testing, I should have noticed these
> issues earlier and never checked in all that stuff.

OK, I managed to script the change, patch last in mail.

However CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-softfloat-linux-gnu- ./MAKEALL  TQM862L TQM855L TQM860L
does not build for me, same problem as you got.
Even if I manually back out the 2 patches affecting 8xx it wont build.
I think these boards have some other problem really, like u-boot is too big for them.

Most other 8xx boards build fine, those that don't have some other problem.