[U-Boot] recent tools on FreeBSD

[Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>]

Hi Simon,

On 05-02-15 04:34, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
>
> On 4 February 2015 at 12:37, Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl> wrote:
>> Hello Guilherme / Simon,
>>
>> It seems that commit f86ed6a8d52c99bb2d17d3cac1647edca0c4399c,
>> "tools: moved code common to all image tools to a separated module."
>>
>> cause some trouble when building on FreeBSD.
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld:./tools/imagetool.lds:24: syntax error
>> cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>>
>> which is about the last line, /* INSERT BEFORE .data; */
>>
>> And thereafter about:
>> /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x90): undefined reference to
>> `__preinit_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x95): undefined reference to
>> `__preinit_array_end'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0xb1): undefined reference to
>> `__preinit_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0xb6): undefined reference to
>> `__preinit_array_end'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to
>> `__preinit_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0xf9): undefined reference to
>> `__init_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0xfe): undefined reference to
>> `__init_array_end'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x11a): undefined reference to
>> `__init_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x11f): undefined reference to
>> `__init_array_end'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x144): undefined reference to
>> `__init_array_start'
>> /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `finalizer':
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x187): undefined reference to
>> `__fini_array_start'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x18c): undefined reference to
>> `__fini_array_end'
>> /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:(.text+0x1b4): undefined reference to
>> `__fini_array_start'
>> /usr/bin/ld: tools/mkenvimage: hidden symbol `__preinit_array_start' isn't
>> defined
>>
>> Which seems to be about missing sections. The (default) ld on FreeBSD
>> branched of from an old version [1],
>> With below patch [2] things build at least.
>>
>> Some question about this:
>> - why do we need linker magic for tools at all? Given that there is no
>> custom linker script for tools (or I failed
>>    to find it), this adds a dependency between the host default linker script
>> and the tweaks in imagetool.lds
>> - what it the INSERT BEFORE .data supposed to do?
>> - and last but not least, how can we make this work in general
>> - and really last, how do I test if it works..
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Jeroen
>>
>> [1]
>> ld --version
>> GNU ld 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03
>>
>> [2]
>> diff --git a/tools/imagetool.lds b/tools/imagetool.ldsdiff --git
> Where is this file?

It is in 2015-04-rc1, see e.g.
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/imagetool.lds;h=7e92b4ac66c811866148540b6c424026ef7abbbc;hb=HEAD

Regards,
Jeroen