[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: make mksunxiboot available to tools-only builds

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 22:22 +0200, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> 
> On 28-07-14 21:29, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This tool is potentially useful on host systems. In particular I'd like to make
> > use of it at build time from the sunxi-tools package in Debian.
> No this does not make sense. Why should a MAKEALL for powerpc
> build mksunxiboot hundreds of times, while it not using it, while you
> ship a arch specific package in Debian?

Hrm, I incorrectly thought that hostprogs-y covered more stuff but I was
wrong.

> Can't you just put this under HOST_TOOLS_ALL and ship an
> u-boot-tools package or something?

The problem with HOST_TOOLS_ALL is that it requires a configured tree.

At the moment we have tools-only which does not require a configured
tree but only includes a minimal set of tools and tools-all
(HOST_TOOLS_ALL) which does require a configured tree but in addition to
the tools which the config implies also builds all "config-independent"
tools as well.

Debian currently builds tools-only into a u-boot-tools package and the
various target specific files into another package. I'd like to get
mksunxiboot into the u-boot-tools package (or perhaps
u-boot-tools-sunxi) so it is available even on non-sunxi (or even
non-ARM) systems.

Perhaps what is needed is a third target between tools-only and
tools-all which builds all config-independent tools without requiring a
config? e.g. tools-all-only? Or maybe it would be possible to relax
tools-all such that it doesn't require a configured tree.

Any opinions on those two options? FWIW the first option would end up
looking something like below, I've not prototyped the second one yet.

Ian.