[U-Boot] Building tools without building firmware

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 17 November 2008 16:05:44 Matt Sealey wrote:
> 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..

should be ... seemed to work for me

btw, we do HOSTSTRIP=echo in Gentoo only because we dont let packages strip 
things themselves ... it's not like u-boot will break things otherwise
-mike
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