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

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:22:51PM +1100, Joel Stanley 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>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>  Makefile | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index dfed58bec661..0bfd57d81646 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -792,7 +792,11 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET),)
>  ALL-y += $(CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET:"%"=%)
>  endif
>  
> -LDFLAGS_u-boot += $(LDFLAGS_FINAL)
> +# Avoid Not enough room for program headers on binutils 2.28 onwards.
> +# Flag was introduced in 2.26
> +LDFLAGS_u-boot += $(LDFLAGS_FINAL) \
> +	$(call ld-ifversion, -ge, 22600000, --no-dynamic-linker)

This breaks on things like:
$ arm-none-eabi-ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors) 2.24.0.20150921

so please use ld-option instead to add this when supported, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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