[U-Boot] MAKEALL

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201110181655.29507.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > That would still be to coarse for above issue.  Also, you might want
> > to use different ARM tool chains for ARMv5te systemd than for ARMv6
> > and yet other ones for ARMv7a, etc.
>
> the idea is easy to extend to CROSS_COMPILE_<soc|cpu> and perhaps even 
> CROSS_COMPILE_<vendor|board>

The problem is that this does not differentiate the tool chains.

CROSS_COMPILE would be arm-linux-gnueabi- in all these cases - it's
PATH that needs to be different in my case.  Eventually we should not
try to catch all situations directly, but allow for a
soc|cpu|vendor|board|whatever specific file name to be sourced by the
script, which then would be responsible to set up the environment as
needed?

> if you're not against the concept, i can post a patch and we can go from 
> there.  but i can say that the limited MAKEALL behavior is the single reason 
> for my limited build testing in the past.  i wrote the buildall script after 
> trying to do tree-wide changes in the last few months because running 
> ./MAKEALL simply does not scale.

I'm all for improving the current situation.  Thanks!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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