[U-Boot] RFC: "make DESTDIR=xxx install" ?

[ksi at koi8.net]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:

> Many packages support installing the resulting binary in another
> location, but U-Boot does not.
> 
> When you use buildsystems like buildroot and openembedded,
> you want to collect the end result in a target directory,
> and while you can use internal knowledge about u-boot
> to do so, it seems cleaner to me, to do a "make DESTDIR install".
> 
> Since you may want to put the binaries for several
> boards in the same directory (like /tftpboot)
> it is not always good to call the binary simply u-boot.bin.
> 
> I guess "make DESTDIR=<destination> TARGET=<name> install" would work
> 
> Alternatively, we collect the final binary from several variables,
> 
> openembedded typically calls the end binary:
> ${MACHINE}-u-boot-${U_BOOT_VERSION}-${REVISION}.bin
> 
> Feedback?

IMHO it is not worth the effort... U-Boot builds its binary in source root
and there is no "make install" at all. When one builds RPM or whatever
packages (as I do) it is not big deal to move the resulting binary elsewhere
with a single "mv" command.

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