On 21.02.2008 17:16, Myles Watson wrote: > It seems like the build would be cleaner if we had two lists of files to add > to the lar and added them in two steps. > > lar -c coreboot.rom $(NOCOMPRESS_FILES) -s $(ROM_SIZE) ... > lar -a coreboot.rom $(COMPRESS_FLAG) $(COMPRESSIBLE_FILES) > > The unfortunate thing with the nocompress:file:lar_path style is that it > makes it difficult to add support for other flags, unless you specify a flag > ordering. For example imagine if you wanted to add a flag specifying to add > the file as close to the end as possible, etc. >
I have a patch which changes lar syntax to something more reasonable and standard. The new syntax is option:option:option:fileondisk=fileinarchive That solves the delimiter problem quite nicely. Opinions? > The reason I was interested is I still think the cleanest way is to allow > repacking of lar files (i.e., no intermediate format), but I don't see a > good way to add that option with the current usage model for lar. > --exporttolar and --importfromlar? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
