[Buildroot] [PATCH] sawman: Link using gcc instead of ld

[Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>]

On 12/09/2013 05:57 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Markos Chandras,
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:48:53 +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
>
>>> Adding:
>>>
>>> LD = $(CC) -nostdlib
>>>
>>> to Makefile.am and also:
>>>
>>> SAWMAN_AUTORECONF = YES
>>>
>>> to sawman.mk fixes the problem.
>>>
>>> What do you think about this solution?
>>
>> Yes this is preferred. You should patch configure.ac or Makefile.am (if
>> they are available) and run autoreconf as suggested.
>
> I definitely agree that patching the Makefile.am and using
> <pkg>_AUTORECONF is the preferred way.
>
> However, I find it weird that we need to add LD = $(CC) -nostdlib in
> the Makefile.am. There are plenty of other autotools-based packages
> that generate libraries, including private libraries, and they work
> just fine. Isn't there a better fix that can hopefully be upstreamed?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
Hi Thomas,

I am not familiar with the code. I haven't examined the Makefiles to be 
honest. A better fix would be to identify the direct use of $(LD) in the 
Makefile for linking and replace it with $(CC). I did something similar 
for directfb

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/directfb/directfb-use-gcc-link.patch

-- 
markos