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

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Andreas,

On 25/03/2016 15:00, Andreas Fenkart wrote:
> 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.

Yes, currently I am using just fw_parse_script. But exporting a library,
it can be possible that someone else need other options.
I see you sent a patch, I send an answer.

Stefano



> 
> /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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