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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix all linker scripts for older binutils versions (pre-2.16)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:31:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817193130.2E2F6833DBD2@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908171514.54018.vapier@gentoo.org>

Dear Mike,

In message <200908171514.54018.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Mike, I am aware that Blackfin is already using the C preprocessor to
> > generate it's linker scripts. I guess this step can now be folded into
> > this general mechanism. Do you want to provide such a patch, or shall
> > I do it?
>
> toolchains that are older than binutils-2.17 wont work with the Blackfin port, 
> so compatibility with pre-2.16 isnt something this port needs to worry about

Agreed, but the cpp step is now _always_ performed, and in your case
twice - first in your board directory, and then again by the top level
Makefile. You could save the local run now.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 12:00 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix all linker scripts for older binutils versions (pre-2.16) Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-17 19:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-17 19:31   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2009-08-17 20:15     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-17 20:24       ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-17 20:31         ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-21 21:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-22 23:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Blackfin: use common code to preprocess linker script Mike Frysinger
2009-08-23 20:25   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-23  0:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix all linker scripts for older binutils versions (pre-2.16) Mike Frysinger
2009-08-23  5:34   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-23  6:09     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-23 19:30       ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-23  6:47     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] start a linker script helper file Mike Frysinger
2009-08-23 20:41       ` Wolfgang Denk

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