[PATCH v2 1/1] sandbox: allow cross-compiling sandbox

[Simon Glass]

HI Heinrich,

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 10:34, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 10:59, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > UEFI test files like helloworld.efi require an architecture specific
> > PE-COFF header.
> >
> > Currently this does not work for cross compiling. If $CROSS_COMPILE is set,
> > use the first part of the architecture triplet from the variable to
> > choose the PE-COFF header.
> >
> > Now we can cross-compile the sandbox, e.g.
> >
> >     make sandbox_defconfig NO_SDL=1
> >     CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu- NO_SDL=1 MK_ARCH=aarch64 make
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >         use $CROSS_COMPILE instead of an extra environment variable
> > ---
> >  Makefile | 10 +++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

With this patch if I try to build sandbox with CROSS_COMPILE=/bin/ it fails.

In fact 'buildman -A sandbox' will return '/bin/' so I'd like your
thoughts on what to do about this. Should we modify your patch or
perhaps make buildman return something else with -A sandbox?

Regards,
Simon

> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>