[U-Boot] Link error for arm targets

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Mon Dec 8 19:13:00 CET 2014


Guys,

I need some help to understand the link error introduced by commit
d455d8789d5b35a39a0a179b3af4b423db13bfdd
fs: API changes enabling extra parameter to return size of type loff_t

I don't see anything wrong with this commit, but some of my targets don't link
after this commit. The error I got for compiling ls1021aqds_nor is:


/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
error:
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(bpabi.o)
uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
failed to merge target specific data of file
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(bpabi.o)
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
error:
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(_divdi3.o)
uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
failed to merge target specific data of file
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(_divdi3.o)
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
error:
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(_udivdi3.o)
uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
failed to merge target specific data of file
/opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.2/libgcc.a(_udivdi3.o)
make[2]: *** [u-boot] Error 1
make[1]: *** [__build_one_by_one] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

I don't know much about this error. Can someone help?

I should have caught this error earlier but a bad escape flaw in my Jenkins
script skipped all the ARM targets I normally test. I hope I didn't let in any
patch with compiling errors (finger crossed).

York


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