[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] fix building of tools/env programs

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <26948.1143075192 at gerd> you wrote:
> 
> Sorry, the first problem is that make doesn't descend into the "env"
> subdirectory when building (hence the addition of "env" to TOOLSUBDIRS

This is not a problem but intentional. I don;t  want  to  have  these
(rarely  used) tools to be build each and every time. This just slows
down the build process.

> in "tools/Makefile"). The second problem is that the env subdirectory
> is not set up for cross-compiling properly - it uses the hosts gcc
> when building the dependencies, as well as different compiler flags.

You are right here.

> The third problem was that a user level program should not include
> linux kernel header files. Hence the change from <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
> to <mtd/mtd-user.h>.

Please note that this has changed between kernel versions. In 2.4  it
was normal to include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>; using <mtd/mtd-user.h> break
such systems because there the file simply does not exist.

> >This does not  work  everywhere;  for  example:  I  cannot  find  any
> >"mtd/mtd-user.h" anywhere on my FC2 system.
> 
> Hmm.. I use OpenEmbedded for cross compiling. This file is installed into
> the OpenEmbedded cross compiling includes area as part of the building of
> the OE "mtd-utils" package (check out http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/).

Please try this yourself on any 2.4 kernel based system.

We will have to find an implementation that  works  in  all  environ-
ments; breaking 2.4 kernel support is not acceptable to me.

[Actually I think I wrote all this before.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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