On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 08:10:38PM +0800, Xiaotian Wu wrote: > A working grub cannot be built with upcoming binutils and gcc, because linker > relaxation was added [1] causing new unsupported relocations to appear in > modules. > > So we pass -mno-relax to gcc if it is supported, to disable relaxation and > make > grub forward-compatible with new toolchains. > > While similar code already exists for sparc64 in configure.ac, sparc64 sets > LDFLAGS while loongarch requires CFLAGS to be set. If we only set LDFLAGS on > loongarch, gcc will still generate relaxation relocations in the .o files, so > the sparc64 code cannot be reused. > > [1]: > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=56576f4a722b7398d35802ecf7d4185c27d6d69b > > Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaot...@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
