[U-Boot] Native builds broken ?

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:08:09 +0100
selsinork at gmail.com wrote:

> Trying to build the u-boot master branch today from 0b2da7e209f4110b7c81d578336a10330e4a4404 
> natively on arm gives
> 
> make: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
> /bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
> dirname: missing operand
> Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
>   CHK     include/config/uboot.release
>   UPD     include/config/uboot.release
>   CHK     include/generated/version_autogenerated.h
> /bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
> /bin/sh: arm-linux-ld.bfd: command not found
>   UPD     include/generated/version_autogenerated.h
>   CHK     include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h
>   UPD     include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h
>   CC      lib/asm-offsets.s
> /bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
> /data/linux/source/u-boot/./Kbuild:34: recipe for target 'lib/asm-offsets.s' failed
> make[1]: *** [lib/asm-offsets.s] Error 127
> Makefile:997: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
> 
> ways around this appear to be to revert 9b6e2c363f2686d6f7bf61fbe58b7591b71d3e8b
> "kbuild: fix CROSS_COMPILE settings in config.mk"
> 
> or to start a native build with
> 
> make CROSS_COMPILE=
> 
> which seems rather counter-intuitive.
> 
> I'm no makefile/Kbuild expert, but wouldn't the changes to arch/*/config.mk 
> be better done like this
> 
> ifneq ($(HOSTARCH),$(ARCH))
>         ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
>                 CROSS_COMPILE := arm-linux-
>         endif
> endif
> 
> so that we only set CROSS_COMPILE if we're actually cross compiling instead of 
> forcing it when it's intentionally empty because we're building natively ?


See
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/331460/



Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada