[U-Boot] Native builds broken ?

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Masahiro,

> 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/

I hope, that this patch will be included before v2014.04 release. It is
supposed to be pulled by Albert :-).

> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada



-- 
Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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