[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools/env: fix cross-compilation

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 05 January 2012 18:25:52 Grant Erickson wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 December 2011 13:39:35 Grant Erickson wrote:
> >> This patch fixes the make infrastructure for the fw_printenv tool such
> >> that it is built, by default, as a cross-compilation for the target
> >> board when so requested with TOOLSUBDIRS on the U-Boot make command
> >> line.
> > 
> > how is this any simpler than the existing method ?
> > 
> > 	make tools HOSTCC=some-random-target-gcc
> > 
> > the current tools/ subdir is consistent in its handling.  this patch
> > would break that.
> 
> Because it's broken with respect to how the rest of U-Boot is built. I
> already specify the cross-compiler via CROSS_COMPILE when I build
> u-boot.bin and u-boot.img, that I need to specify the same compiler in two
> different ways to build executables for the same target platform is broken
> and, it sounds like, as are the rest of the tools subdirectories.

no, you specified the toolchain that is appropriate for building bare metal 
code.  it is often times not the same as the toolchain used to build userspace 
applications for running under Linux.  this is not broken behavior.
-mike
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