[U-Boot] [PATCH] start a linker script helper file

Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-23T20:41:02Z

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <1251010079-10475-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
> Start a common header file for common linker script code (such as
> workarounds for older linkers) rather than doing this in the build system.
>
> As fallout, we no longer execute the linker every time config.mk is
> included by a build file (which can easily be 70+ times), but rather only
> execute it once.
>
> This also fixes a bug in the major version checking by creating a macro to
> easily compare versions and keep people from making the same common
> mistake (forgetting to check major and minor together).
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> ---
> note: rather than update every linker script and add an #include, i forced
> it by using -include $(TOPDIR)/include/u-boot/u-boot.lds.h. i think this
> is sane going forward.
>
> also, i picked include/u-boot/ over include/asm-generic/ as the former
> seemed like a better u-boot-specific dir. linux uses include/asm-generic/.
> doesnt matter much to me.
>
> Makefile | 8 ++++++++
> config.mk | 10 ----------
> include/u-boot/u-boot.lds.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/u-boot/u-boot.lds.h

That's version 2, right?

Applied. Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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