Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

On Monday, November 08, 2010 17:04:32 Sebastien Carlier wrote:

This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended. This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function cmd_link_o_target (added at the end of config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is inspired.

linux takes it a step further ... it partially links everything into one .o before turning that into the final ELF. why dont we do the same (partially link everything into u-boot.o and then just do u-boot.o->u-boot) ? it should allow us to drop the start/end group flags in the process. -mike