[U-Boot] Cross-compiling U-Boot on Mac OS X -- can't find crc32.c?

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Wed May 20 16:41:09 CEST 2009


Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 
>> It's you who has OS X, and who has a problem. Only when Ah itchez, Ah
>> scratchez.
> 
> Just so I'm clear on this, you're saying that you're not really
> concerned about how well U-Boot works for other people?

No, people that aren't running OS X cannot debug problems that happen 
when running on OS X.

You wrote:
> Well, I tried to fix it, but I can't figure it out.  I just don't
> understand why it's so broken.  The errors I get are so confusing, and
> I can't figure out what the Makefile is doing when it fails.  So I
> give up.

followed by:

> Wolfgang, I think you seriously need to revamp your build process.
> The kernel is orders of magnitude more complex than U-Boot, and yet I
> can build it just fine on OS X.

That sounds like you want Wolfgang to fix a problem he doesn't have and 
cannot reproduce, since he isn't running OS X (to the best of my knowledge).
   <http://xkcd.com/583/>

gvb



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