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Add patch to use 'gcc' instead of 'ld' for linking

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The patch has been sent upstream but it has not been merged yet

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Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>

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From 176ce06b40897a357fe76a558af517197325f188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>

Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:56:32 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] rules/libobject.make: Use gcc for linking

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Invoking 'ld' directly may miss some necessary linker flags which

are usually passed by gcc. Therefore, use gcc for linking.

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Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>

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 rules/libobject.make | 2 +-

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/rules/libobject.make b/rules/libobject.make

index bc670da..2cba658 100644

--- a/rules/libobject.make

+++ b/rules/libobject.make

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@

    if test -d $<.tmp; then rmdir $<.tmp; fi

    mkdir $<.tmp

    (cd $<.tmp && $(AR) x ../../$<)

-   $(LD) -o $@ -r $<.tmp/*.o

+   $(CC) -nostdlib -o $@ -r $<.tmp/*.o

    rm -f $<.tmp/*.o && rmdir $<.tmp

 .PHONY: $(LTLIBRARIES:%.la=.libs/%.a)

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1.8.3.2

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