[U-Boot] Compiling the latest u-boot-2009.06 with Cross-2.95, and errors came out

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Johnson Yu,

> Hi Detlev Z,
>
>
> Thanks for your suggestions, and after I upgraded the toolchain to
> v3.2, those problems went away.

Why did you upgrade only to 3.2?  We are currently using gcc-4.2.2.  You
are welcome to download ELDK 4.2 for arm[1] and give it a try.

> However, new errors turned up as expected:

You expected new errors?  Uh uh, I was hoping for them to go away ;)

> 1) the invocations of U_BOOT_CMD in several .c files,
> common/cmd_bootm.c line 923, common/cmd_source.c line 232,
> common/cmd_ximg.c line 186 terminated the make process for the
> "unterminated argument list invoking macro "U_BOOT_CMD" ", known as
> the "parse error". So, I set the last argument of U_BOOT_CMD marco to
> NULL, and then make went silent.

I don't understand this.  include/common.h defines U_BOOT_CMD to take 6
parameters.  Your example common/cmd_boot.c also provides 6 parameters:

U_BOOT_CMD(
        bootm,  CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS,     1,      do_bootm,
        "boot application image from memory",
        "[addr [arg ...]]\n    - boot application image stored in memory\n"
        "\tpassing arguments 'arg ...'; when booting a Linux kernel,\n"
...... [more concatenations below this point]

So I count 4 parameters on the first line, 1 parameter on the next and
the 6th parameter is the long list of concatenated strings.

Why should you need to add another parameter here?

> 2) this error came at the linking stage:
>
>  "arm-linux-ld:/home/johnson-yn/GEARI/u-boot-2009.06/board/atmel/at91rm9200dk/u-boot.lds:40:
> parse error
> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1"
>
> and the line 40 of u-boot.lds is :
>
> .rodata : { *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) }
>
> how should I solve this?

The easiest way would be to upgrade to a _recent_ toolchain (i.e. >4).
On the other hand, the line you mention was added in this commit:

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f62fb99941c625605aa16a0097b396a5c16d2c88

If you check the commit msg, you get an idea of how you may "unwind"
this optimization.

However, why invest time, if a recent toolchain "just works"?

> If I just don't need use NAND flash module in u-boot, what are the
> steps I should take??

It should be enough to #undef CONFIG_CMD_NAND in the config file.

Cheers
  Detlev


[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/ELDKDownload?stickboard=qong


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