[U-Boot] Building tools without building firmware

[Matt Sealey]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 15:15:09 Matt Sealey wrote:
>> We have a need to build and package at the very least 'mkimage' for SuSE
>> 11.1 and since we have multiple board targets in mind (MPC8641D, MPC8610,
>> MPC5121e) it does not make any sense to pick any in particular or build the
>> entire u-boot.bin just for a few kilobytes we need to prep kernels and
>> initrd images.
>>
>> Is it possible to simply build the tools/ directory (a make target that
>> works would be great) without building a firmware from BLAH_config first?
> 
> you can see the method we use in Gentoo here:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/dev-embedded/u-boot-tools/

Ouch.

> but i'd agree that i wish it were easier to just build the helper utilities.  
> and if they werent so tightly intertwined with the rest of the u-boot code ... 
> atm you cant build mkimage on a non-Linux system due to the libfdt stuff.

Am I reading this right.. I'm using SUSE 11.0 here so I guess I do

touch include/config.h include/config.mk
make HOSTSTRIP=echo BIN_FILES="mkimage"

And that'd do it? I'll have to check it out later..

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Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations