[U-Boot] Link error for arm targets

[York Sun]

On 12/08/2014 11:31 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 10:13 -0800, York Sun wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes
> 

Thanks. Bill Pringlemeir points me a patch later committed.

York