[U-Boot] MAKEALL

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 02:23:10 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 	Before sending the patch, you must run the MAKEALL script on
> 	your patched source tree and make sure that no errors or
> 	warnings are reported for any of the boards. Well, at least
> 	not any more warnings than without your patch.
> 
> 	It is strongly recommended to verify that out-of-tree building
> 	(with "-O" make option resp. "BUILD_DIR" environment variable)
> 	is still working. For example, run:
> 
> 	$ BUILD_DIR=/tmp/u-boot-build ./MAKEALL
> 
> Why is nobody doing this?

because MAKEALL is a pita to use.  it has no automatic CROSS_COMPILE support, 
and the current logic only allows one-CROSS_COMPILE-setting-per-run.  so you 
have to run MAKEALL by hand once per arch.

the documentation you quote only shows running MAKEALL for powerpc (since 
that's the default), so even the docs are a bit unclear.

ideally, MAKEALL should be intelligent and automatically find an appropriate 
toolchain if one isn't setup in the env.  much like the buildall script i 
posted recently.
-mike