[U-Boot] getline prototype issue

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Tue Jul 30 23:38:07 CEST 2013


On 07/30/2013 02:29 PM, York Sun wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 02:17 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi York,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com
>> <mailto:yorksun at freescale.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Simon,
>>
>>     Your patch
>>
>>     commit 669dfc2ed8d853d6bcdcafa1de6aca22929465e5
>>     Author: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org <mailto:sjg at chromium.org>>
>>     Date:   Mon Mar 11 06:30:27 2013 +0000
>>
>>         fdt: Ensure that libfdt_env.h comes from U-Boot
>>
>>     adds libfdt_env.h to HOSTCPPFLAGS. The causes a problem with one of our
>>     older hosts. On the old hosts, getline prototype is protected by
>>
>>     #ifdef __USE_GNU
>>
>>     This should be OK if the C file has #define _GNU_SOURCE. However,
>>     because of your patch, the stdio.h is included before _GNU_SOURCE is
>>     defined. The result is warnings like this
>>
>>     aisimage.c: In function ‘aisimage_generate’:
>>     aisimage.c:313: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
>>     kwbimage.c: In function ‘kwdimage_set_ext_header’:
>>     kwbimage.c:236: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
>>     imximage.c: In function ‘parse_cfg_file’:
>>     imximage.c:430: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
>>     pblimage.c: In function ‘pbl_parser’:
>>     pblimage.c:137: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
>>     ublimage.c: In function ‘parse_cfg_file’:
>>     ublimage.c:179: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
>>
>>
>> I took a quick look at this. It seems that many of the host C files in
>> tools/ define _GNU_SOURCE. Should we just move that #define to the Makefile?
>>
> 
> Adding -D_GNU_SOURCE in Makefile can fix this problem.
> 

Are you going to send out a patch soon?

York





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