[U-Boot] [PATCH] u-boot/mpc85xx/u-boot*.lds: remove _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ definition

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 09:28:50AM +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:

> From: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at freescale.com>
> 
> In binutils-2.25, the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ symbols defined by PROVIDE in
> u-boot.lds overrides the linker built-in symbols
> (https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=b893397a4b1316610f49819344817715e4305de9),
> so the linker is treating _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ as a definition into the .reloc section.
> 
> To align with the change of binutils-2.25, the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ symbol
> should not be defined in sections, and the symbols in linker generated .got
> section should be used(https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-09/msg00122.html).
> 
> Fixed the following build errors with binutils-2.25:
> | powerpc-poky-linux-gnuspe-ld.bfd: _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ not defined in linker created .got
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar at freescale.com>

What happens when we use older binutils?  I'd like some run-time testing
too please :)  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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