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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:52:00 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: Link with GCC instead of LD
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Dear Andreas Bie?mann,

[...]

> > -# Always use GNU ld
> > -LD	= $(shell if $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld.bfd -v > /dev/null 2>&1; \
> > -		then echo "$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld.bfd"; else echo 
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld";
> > fi;) +# Link with GCC
> > +LD	= $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> 
> with this change we should also remove LD_VERSION_STRING from
> $(VERSION_FILE). Currently it will call 'gcc -v' which will print
> compile switches to stderr.
> 
> Compiled and runtime tested on avr32 atngw100mkii, on first sight it
> seems sane.

Good catch. I added it to u-boot-testing/dm-gcclink branch already, but will 
repost after I get a bit more feedback.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Marek Vasut