[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: compiler options cleanup - improve tool chain support

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Prafulla Wadaskar,

In message <73173D32E9439E4ABB5151606C3E19E202E3915D98@SC-VEXCH1.marvell.com> you wrote:
> 
> I get following erro only if I execute following build command
> make mrproper; make sheevaplug_config; make USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=no
> CROSS_COMPILE=armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi- 2> warn.txt
>
> And cat warn.txt 
> armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi-ld: cannot find -lgcc
> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1

This is to be expected, because the command is wrong.
USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC takes either the value "yes" (to use the U-Boot
supplied routines, or the name of a directory which contains the
needed libgcc.a library - and you don;t have a directory "no", it
seems.

> Whereas,
> if I unset first USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC then I do not get this error and build is through
> My invocation may be wrong but shouldn't it treat USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=no as unset?

No, it should not.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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