[U-Boot] MAKEALL

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 October 2011 02:23:10 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>       Before sending the patch, you must run the MAKEALL script on
>>       your patched source tree and make sure that no errors or
>>       warnings are reported for any of the boards. Well, at least
>>       not any more warnings than without your patch.
>>
>>       It is strongly recommended to verify that out-of-tree building
>>       (with "-O" make option resp. "BUILD_DIR" environment variable)
>>       is still working. For example, run:
>>
>>       $ BUILD_DIR=/tmp/u-boot-build ./MAKEALL
>>
>> Why is nobody doing this?
>
> because MAKEALL is a pita to use.  it has no automatic CROSS_COMPILE support,
> and the current logic only allows one-CROSS_COMPILE-setting-per-run.  so you
> have to run MAKEALL by hand once per arch.
>
> the documentation you quote only shows running MAKEALL for powerpc (since
> that's the default), so even the docs are a bit unclear.
>
> ideally, MAKEALL should be intelligent and automatically find an appropriate
> toolchain if one isn't setup in the env.  much like the buildall script i
> posted recently.

Yes I think this is along the right track. I tried MAKEALL a long time
ago and it didn't work (just got an error about incorrect
architecture) so I assumed it was broken. Apart from full docs, it
would be good to have a place to download all the toolchains needed
for MAKEALL.

Regards,
Simon

> -mike
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