_SPIFFS_end no longer defined on esp arduino

[reaper7]

It seems that _SPIFFS_end will not be defined in future versions of esp8266 arduino,
and has been replaced with _FS_end (as well as other declarations):
esp8266/Arduino@a389a99

In this situation, I can not compile any example from this lib and the espurna project :(
error:

c:/programy/arduino/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/tools/xtensa-lx106-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-lx106-elf/4.8.2/../../../../xtensa-lx106-elf/bin/ld.exe: C:\TEMP\arduino_build_8160\libraries\eeprom_rotate\EEPROM_Rotate.cpp.o:(.text._ZN13EEPROM_Rotate8reservedEv+0x4): undefined reference to `_SPIFFS_end'

[proddy]

I don't get this compile error. Using espressif8266@2.2.1

[reaper7]

I wrote about esp8266 current git master

[proddy]

ah sorry, missed that. Looks like all the SPIFFs needs to be ported to LittleFS. I'm guessing because of stability and backward compatibility the espurna libraries will always stay back on n-1 version of espressif so we may have to do the updates ourselves in a new branch?

[reaper7]

new branch is a good idea,
especially that espurna also needs patches in the utils.ino file

[mcspr]

Just FYI, this can be aliased back. Not sure why Core PR removed old symbols.

For ESPurna specifically, .ld files (code/*.ld, per flash size) used by platformio need these:

PROVIDE ( _FS_start = _SPIFFS_start );
PROVIDE ( _FS_end = _SPIFFS_end );

If IDE / arduino-cli is used, .ld files in Core installation (tools/sdk/ld) need modification:

PROVIDE ( _SPIFFS_start = _FS_start );
PROVIDE ( _SPIFFS_end = _FS_end );

[reaper7]

I know how to temporarily fix it
but we need permanent solution, especially when we often refresh git version...
...we can get lost in manually edited files :)