Not all linkers are able to parse "INSERT BEFORE" part of the linker script. For example following (rather new) "gold" one:
GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Debian 2.22) 1.11
produces following error: HOSTLD tools/mkenvimage /usr/bin/ld: error: ./tools/imagetool.lds:23:8: syntax error, unexpected STRING /usr/bin/ld: fatal error: unable to parse script file ./tools/imagetool.lds collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [tools/mkenvimage] Error 1 make: *** [tools] Error 2
The problem has already been reported, but no evident solution has been proposed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927573#c5
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski l.majewski@samsung.com --- tools/imagetool.lds | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/imagetool.lds b/tools/imagetool.lds index 7e92b4a..4fa996a 100644 --- a/tools/imagetool.lds +++ b/tools/imagetool.lds @@ -20,5 +20,3 @@ SECTIONS
__bss_start = .; } - -INSERT BEFORE .data;