Re: [ECOS] Another redboot compile issue

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

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On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:48, John Newlin wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The object files are all in libtarget.a (redboot_mfill.o for example).
> However they are not being included in the final .elf file unless I
> explicitly add the redboot_mfill.o to the link line.
> 

Look at the RedBoot CDL - it puts those files into libextras.a.  The
linking process won't work unless this happens, as you are seeing.

> It might just be a bug in the binutils that I have, the architecture
> vendor has ports of some rather old tools. (in this case ld is 2.11.2)
> 
> I may have a bug in my target.ld file as well, but I'm not sure
> what it could be.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> -john
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:18, John Newlin wrote:
> > > I see that Redboot is using a linker list to add commands to be linked
> > > into the system.
> > >
> >
> > That's not really true.
> >
> > > The problem I am having is that when the .o files for redboot are added to
> > > libtarget.a, that list is not fully populated.  If I put the redboot_*.o
> > > files directly on the link line, everything is great
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?  Should I just change the final link line to do this, or
> > > is there a different preferred mechanism?
> >
> > If you want to add new commands, make sure that they are put into
> > libextras.a, otherwise they won't end up in the final image.  Changing
> > the way RedBoot is built/linked should not be necessary at all.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
> > MLB Associates
> >
-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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