From aced11f4dc8fb4f217360198e8c4cda2cdf620e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Khem Raj Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:44:56 -0700 Subject: kernel-arch: Force BFD kernel when using gcc for linking We redefine LD to point to ld.bfd when building kernel, which works in most cases since kbuild system calls out for bare LD most of the time, however some of newer kernels e.g. 4.1+ have some code added which can call gcc directly to do the linking job e.g. arm vdso code This causes build failures when we have configured the default cross toolchain to use gold linker as default. Errors like BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N | arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-objcopy:arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so[.hash]: Bad value start happening. With this patch we force gcc to choose bfd linker as well (From OE-Core rev: 5724e4d245f142ac6fb1ea211503fd220683354d) Signed-off-by: Khem Raj Signed-off-by: Ross Burton Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass index 66508708a9..211b72bee6 100644 --- a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ HOST_LD_KERNEL_ARCH ?= "${TARGET_LD_KERNEL_ARCH}" TARGET_AR_KERNEL_ARCH ?= "" HOST_AR_KERNEL_ARCH ?= "${TARGET_AR_KERNEL_ARCH}" -KERNEL_CC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gcc ${HOST_CC_KERNEL_ARCH}" +KERNEL_CC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gcc ${HOST_CC_KERNEL_ARCH} -fuse-ld=bfd" KERNEL_LD = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}ld.bfd ${HOST_LD_KERNEL_ARCH}" KERNEL_AR = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}ar ${HOST_AR_KERNEL_ARCH}" -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf