[U-Boot] [PATCH] Makefile: Fix linking with modern binutils

[Simon Glass]

On 7 December 2016 at 22:22, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> Since Binutils 1a9ccd70f9a7[1] u-boot will not link targets that set
> CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0 with the following error:
>
>   LD      u-boot
> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: u-boot: Not enough room for program headers, try
>  linking with -N
> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: final link failed: Bad value
>
> The issue can reproduced the bad binutils and the rock2_defconfig target.
>
> This issue was also encountered by the powerpc kernel[2], with the fix
> being to pass --no-dynamic-linker for linkers newer than 2.26 when this
> flag was introduced. While version 2.26 and 2.27 will not show this
> error, we are technically creating invalid ELF files without this
> option.
>
> Ubuntu Zesty's Binutils 2.27.51.20161202 hits this error.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=1a9ccd70f9a7
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=ff45000fcb56b5b0f1a14a865d3541746d838a0a
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> ---
>  Makefile | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>