[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: imagetool: Remove "INSERT BEFORE" from linker script

[Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>]

Hi Andreas,

> On 16.02.15 17:55, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 03:05:45PM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > 
> >> Not all linkers are able to parse "INSERT BEFORE" part of the
> >> linker script. For example following (rather new) "gold" one:
> >>
> >> GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Debian 2.22) 1.11
> >>
> >> produces following error:
> >>   HOSTLD  tools/mkenvimage
> >> /usr/bin/ld: error: ./tools/imagetool.lds:23:8: syntax error,
> >> unexpected STRING /usr/bin/ld: fatal error: unable to parse script
> >> file ./tools/imagetool.lds collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit
> >> status make[1]: *** [tools/mkenvimage] Error 1
> >> make: *** [tools] Error 2
> >>
> >> The problem has already been reported, but no evident solution has
> >> been proposed:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927573#c5
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
> > 
> > Guilherme, can you please confirm that things still work as
> > expected for you with this patch applied?  Thanks!
> 
> I vote for 437762 [1] as replacement for this patch.
> 
> It is not only the linker script which is not understood by the Darwin
> linker. The linker generated lists work just differently on Darwin,
> therefore a93648d197df48fa46dd55f925ff70468bd81c71 broke mkimage for
> me. Guilherme told the RFC would work [2].
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Andreas Bie?mann
> 
> [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/437762/
> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/211224

I can confirm that patch [1] works on my host debian machine.

Tested-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>

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Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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