[Buildroot] Passing arguments to the linker when external toolchain is used.

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 26/11/12 21:45, Ronny Meeus wrote:
>> >    I don't think we have any other architecture currently in buildroot that
>> >  requires something to be passed to ld. If this wrapper construction is
>> >  added to buildroot, it would be good if we would also have an internal
>> >  use case.
>> >
> I do not really understand. On one hand you say it is a valid use-case
> and on the other hand you say that an internal use-case is needed.

  If ld requires some architecture specific flag to work, then it's a valid
use case to add this in the wrapper. (However, I now realize that this
would only work for external toolchains...  For internal and crosstool-NG
toolchains, we don't have a wrapper and it's not needed because those
things are hard-coded at compile time. So how would you deal with that for
this ld case?)

  But it would improve acceptance if there were also a use case inside
buildroot. I tried to find a package that would also require the additional
LD flag, but it seems that most packages that do partial linking use
$(CC) -nostdlib.

> Shall I put some more effort in generalising the C code of the
> wrapper?
> Is there any chance that it gets accepted by the community?

  If you can show a .config that fails to build without it: certainly.
Otherwise, it depends on how hard you push it :-)

  Regards,
  Arnout

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