[U-Boot] [PATCH 02/32] x86: Align config.mk and linker scripts with other arches

[Graeme Russ]

On 05/02/11 07:42, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 23:35:29 +1100
> Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>  LDFLAGS += --cref
>> -LDFLAGS_u-boot += --gc-sections
>> -PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections
>> +LDFLAGS_u-boot += --gc-sections -pie
>> +LDSCRIPT := $(SRCTREE)/$(CPUDIR)/u-boot.lds
> 
> The use of --cref came up recently (see
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-February/086698.html).
> 
> During what link phase is --cref supposed to be used?  Currently it is being
> used during partial links only, and not the final link, as a result of
> commit 8aba9dceebb14144e07d19593111ee3a999c37fc.  As the toplevel
> config.mk currently stands, it would have to go in PLATFORM_LDFLAGS to
> be used in all link phases, or LDFLAGS_u-boot to be used when linking
> the final image only.
> 
> BTW, is it really enabled because of something to do with i386?  Or just
> maintainer preference (in which case it should probably be a non-arch config,
> or in this case just enabled unconditionally, since I don't think there's
> any harm to it).

I think --cref is historical. I have just performed a build without it and
it runs fine, so I think it can be safely removed.

Maybe it might be worth starting a separate discussion thread with the goal
of unifying and documenting the linker, make and config.mk files?

Regards,

Graeme