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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Makefile: Fix linking with modern binutils
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:07:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161226180711.GI4248@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161216045330.31257-1-joel@jms.id.au>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 03:23:30PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:

> Since Binutils 1a9ccd70f9a7[1] u-boot will not link targets that set
> CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0 with the following error:
> 
>   LD      u-boot
> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: u-boot: Not enough room for program headers, try
>  linking with -N
> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: final link failed: Bad value
> 
> The issue can reproduced the bad binutils and the rock2_defconfig target.
> 
> This issue was also encountered by the powerpc kernel[2], with the fix
> being to pass --no-dynamic-linker for linkers newer than 2.26 when this
> flag was introduced. The option tells ld that the PIE or shared lib does
> not need loaded program headers.
> 
> Ubuntu Zesty's Binutils 2.27.51.20161202 hits this error.
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=1a9ccd70f9a7
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=ff45000fcb56b5b0f1a14a865d3541746d838a0a
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> ---
> v2:
>  - use ld-option to test for the flag instead of the version, as suggested by M?ns
>  - update commit message with clarification from Alan
> 
>  Makefile | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index dfed58bec661..c98a8361654a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -793,6 +793,10 @@ ALL-y += $(CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET:"%"=%)
>  endif
>  
>  LDFLAGS_u-boot += $(LDFLAGS_FINAL)
> +
> +# Avoid 'Not enough room for program headers' error on binutils 2.28 onwards.
> +LDFLAGS_u-boot += $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker)
> +
>  ifneq ($(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE),)
>  LDFLAGS_u-boot += -Ttext $(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE)
>  endif

I had to think about this a bit and poke around.  I think we need to be
adjusting LDFLAGS_$(SPL_BIN) in scripts/Makefile.spl for safety here as
well since if CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE=0 (which seems just as possible as
CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0) we would hit the same condition.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-26 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-16  4:53 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Makefile: Fix linking with modern binutils Joel Stanley
2016-12-26 18:07 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2017-01-12  9:19 ` Sjoerd Simons
2017-03-21 13:59   ` Jon
2017-03-21 15:16     ` Tom Rini
2017-03-21 23:00       ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-03-21 23:13         ` Tom Rini
2017-03-22 12:53           ` Alan Modra

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