[U-Boot-Users] Problems Building u-boot-1.3.1

[Jon Loeliger]

Hi Brian,

You are getting closer! :-)  For perfection, you need
to adjust a few things.  First, make your mail Subject: line
be a concise one-line summary of your patch prefixed with
a "[PATCH]" so we can spot it, and then launch into the
rest of your log message.

Secondly, non-log commentary like this:

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 20:23, raptorbrino at aim.com wrote:
> Sorry guys, first time posting a patch and I believe the formatting
> of my last mail was all wrong.  Here's a better attempt at it.

belongs after a "---" line, but before your diff content.

> This patch allows u-boot to build without error in a cygwin
> environment.  Cygwin does not define __u64 in it's
> include/asm/types.h file.  The -idirafter flag in the u-boot
> build causes the inclusion of the cygwin types.h file as opposed
> to u-bot/include/asm/types.h file which does define __u64.
> Subsequently, sha1.c compile fails due to unknown symbol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Miller <raptorbrino at netscape.net>

Right here!  Like this:

---

Additional commentary here....

and then your patch!

> diff -purN old/tools/Makefile new/tools/Makefile
> --- old/tools/Makefile  2007-12-06 01:21:19.000000000 -0800
> +++ new/tools/Makefile  2007-12-13 12:22:15.796875000 -0800
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ endif
>  #
>  ifeq ($(HOSTOS),cygwin)
>  SFX = .exe
> +HOST_CFLAGS += -ansi
>  else
>  SFX =
>  endif

Keep up the good fight!

Good luck,
jdl