powerpc: change .fixup test to a GCC version test

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / Makefile

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5f8b02c36a5ea624c9f590838737aedb2ec2f328..5a3cfba0cd3b5fce9c797f951ac352962c04524c 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -643,6 +643,16 @@ checkthumb:
                echo '*** Your board is configured for THUMB mode.'; \
                false; \
        fi
+
+# GCC 3.x is reported to have problems generating the type of relocation
+# that U-Boot wants.
+# See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-September/135156.html
+checkgcc4:
+       @if test $(call cc-version) -lt 0400; then \
+               echo -n '*** Your GCC is too old, please upgrade to GCC 4.x or newer'; \
+               false; \
+       fi
+
 #
 # Auto-generate the autoconf.mk file (which is included by all makefiles)
 #