Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <201012271146.22205.vap...@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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de The sight of death frightens them [Earthers]. -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot