
Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 201012271146.22205.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
This move linker option used by the last of u-boot in LDFLAGS_u-boot variable. And the option to use in ld uses LDFLAGS variable.
Can you please explain why this would be needed?
he explained in the previous thread why we need to split things. there are flags that are needed for all linker options and there are flags needed just for the final u-boot link.
Such an explanation belongs into the commit message.
-LDFLAGS += --gc-sections -m elf32bfin +LDFLAGS_u-boot += --gc-sections
The name "LDFLAGS_u-boot" may actually work here, but iut is inconsistent with other such variables names, and using '-' in a name is probably not a good idea either.
it isnt inconsistent. the convention is $(XFLAGS_$(@F)) and we just happen to
Can you please point me to an example where this has been used in U-Boot before? Or why do you call this a convention?
I fail to see a reason this is needed or even useful here.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk