[U-Boot] [PATCH] Kbuild: allow building tools without board configuration

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 05:33:51PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> Prior to Kbuild, U-Boot could build under tools/ directory
> withour configuring for a specific board.
> 
> That feature was lost when switching to Kbuild.
> 
> This patch revives it again by adding a make target "tools-only".
> 
> Usage:
>   $ make tools-only
> 
> Neither board configuration nor cross compiler are required to
> build host tools.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
> Suggested-by: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>

Problem is that we make enabling the signature code (which adds more
deps on the host) based on the config, and this was intentional.   So
I'm not sure if we want to do this exactly, at least right now.

-- 
Tom
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