[U-Boot] buildman for sandbox

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 9 March 2016 at 13:39, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:43:58AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On 8 March 2016 at 16:42, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 07:39:30PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>> >> Hi Joe,
>> >>
>> >> On 7 May 2015 at 03:17, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Simon,
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there a way to make buildman compile sandbox with a non-system tool
>> >> > chain? I've tried creating an alias from sandbox to i386 and removing
>> >> > the "root" entry. It then simply claims not to have a sandbox tool
>> >> > chain.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > -Joe
>> >>
>> >> FYI I've prepared a series that permits:
>> >>
>> >> [toolchain-prefix]
>> >> sandbox = /path/to/sandbox-gcc
>> >
>> > And in this case it just takes what it finds, if it exists right?  ie I
>> > can also do:
>> > sandbox = /usr/bin/clang
>> > ?
>>
>> What should it set CROSS_COMPILE to in that case?
>
> Ah, so that's where life is going to get "fun" for buildman and llvm.
> For sandbox, nothing.  For other arches, well, I need to toy with
> cc-option I think to see if we can make life a lot easier than
> doc/README.llvm says to do, today.  Not supporting llvm in buildman
> today is OK since we don't well support it anyhow, but I want to fix
> that going forward.

OK, well let me know what needs doing and I can take a crack at it.

Regards,
Simon