[U-Boot] error when building env

[Luka Perkov]

Hi Masahiro,

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:39:27PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:25:47 -0400 Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 02:14:03PM +0200, Luka Perkov wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:58:05PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:26:51PM +0200, Luka Perkov wrote:
> > > > > when trying to build env with "-mfloat-abi=hard" I'm hitting this error:
> > > > > 
> > > > > /opt/openwrt/trunk/staging_dir/toolchain-arm_cortex-a9+neon_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2_eabi/bin/arm-openwrt-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc  -o tools/env/fw_printenv_unstripped tools/env/fw_env.o tools/env/fw_env_main.o tools/env/crc32.o tools/env/ctype.o tools/env/linux_string.o tools/env/env_attr.o tools/env/env_flags.o tools/env/aes.o  
> > > > > /opt/build/owrt_staging_dir/toolchain-arm_cortex-a9+neon_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2_eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-openwrt-linux-uclibcgnueabi/4.8.3/../../../../arm-openwrt-linux-uclibcgnueabi/bin/ld: error: tools/env/fw_printenv_unstripped uses VFP register arguments, tools/env/fw_env.o does not
> > > > 
> > > > Odd.  I can build 'tools-only' with my hard float toolchain fine.  Can
> > > > you build with V=1 and see what files are perhaps not getting passed in
> > > > a -mfloat option?
> > > 
> > > The patch below fixes the problem I was having. Is that good enough for
> > > proper patch submission?
> > > 
> > > With it I am able to use replace default HOSTCFLAGS with what was
> > > defined in TARGET_CFLAGS.
> > > 
> > > Luka
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/tools/env/Makefile b/tools/env/Makefile
> > > index f5368bc..4de1d51 100644
> > > --- a/tools/env/Makefile
> > > +++ b/tools/env/Makefile
> > > @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
> > >  # with "CC" here for the maximum code reuse of scripts/Makefile.host.
> > >  HOSTCC = $(CC)
> > >  
> > > +ifneq ($(TARGET_CFLAGS),)
> > > +HOSTCFLAGS = $(TARGET_CFLAGS)
> > > +endif
> > > +
> > >  # Compile for a hosted environment on the target
> > >  HOST_EXTRACFLAGS  = $(patsubst -I%,-idirafter%, $(UBOOTINCLUDE)) \
> > >  		-idirafter $(srctree)/tools/env \
> > 
> > This still seems odd.  Masahiro?
> 
> Looks odd to me.
> 
> According to Luka's build log,
> he is trying to compile the C sources with hard float,
> but link them against soft float library.
> 
> In my understanding,  consistency should be kept between compile and link stage
> by the compiler as is .
> We don't have to tweak HOSTCFLAGS from the outside.

Back when I was debugging this I've seen that in main Makefile this line
is defined:

HOSTCFLAGS   = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer

I needed to replace it to whatever I have defined in TARGET_CFLAGS, thus
I've proposed the patch above.

It's not a problem to keep this workaround externally, I thought others
were hitting this problem as well.

Luka