[U-Boot] ENV library broken with setenv/printenv argument structs

Andreas Fenkart afenkart at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 15:00:24 CET 2016


HI Stefano,

I was not aware of the use case. I have sent out a simple patch that
moves the definition of the structs from fw_main_env.c to fw_env.c,
which should avoid the linking problem. Do you have test application
you could send me. I without doing the option parsing as done in
fw_env_main, you probably use only use a very limited subset of the
library.

/Andi

2016-03-25 10:31 GMT+01:00 Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> your series for the U-Boot environment tools does not let to use anymore
> the tools as library to be linked to custom program.
>
> In fact, tools/env/Makefile generates a library too:
>
> lib-y += fw_env.o \
>         crc32.o ctype.o linux_string.o \
>         env_attr.o env_flags.o aes.o
>
> that means that fw_main should not maintain any structure that is
> referenced by the library.
> In fact, linking with the library (renamed as ibubootenv.a), gives the
> errors:
>
> undefined reference to `printenv_args'
> undefined reference to `common_args'
>
> The two functions fw_printenv() and fw_setenv() are then supposed to be
> called by a custom program, what it does not work anymore.
>
> Can you take a look at it ?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano Babic
>
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