On 02/22/2013 01:22 PM, Mcdaniel, Daryl wrote: > IMHO, the easiest way to build a package or module that is not in the > WORKSPACE tree is to use symbolic links and the standard EDK II build > system. Create a symbolic link to your package in the root of > $WORKSPACE or a link to your module within the using package.
As I wrote when this topic came up three weeks ago, the approach you suggest won't work when your goal is to create a program that's compatible with inclusion in a Linux distribution. The issue is one of the assumptions that the package systems (RPM, Debian packages, ebuilds, etc.) make about where files go and what permissions they have. Placing the source files for a specific package (rEFInd, in my case) within a library's source directory (TianoCore's) simply cannot be guaranteed in the build system -- at least, not as far as I know for the package systems with which I'm familiar. Even dropping the files elsewhere and creating symbolic links would be unreliable at best because of permissions issues -- creating a symbolic link requires write access within the TianoCore tree, but packages can be built by ordinary users who might not have such access. Thus, a build process that does not touch the library tree is a pre-requisite for building in a way that's compatible with building as a Linux package. The only way I can think of to build an EFI program in-tree with TianoCore using RPM is to include the entire TianoCore tree as a patch to the main program, and that's just plain ridiculous. Of course, this specific reason doesn't apply to every project. If you're writing an EFI driver for a hardware device and have no reason to distribute it with Linux, you probably don't care about building Linux packages, and that's fine. I, OTOH, was developing a boot manager that I wanted to be easy to distribute with Linux, so using a Linux-friendly build process was high on my list of priorities. Daniel Cardin, who started this thread, hasn't said why he wants to build outside of the TianoCore tree, or even what platform he's using, so it's hard to say what approach would work best for him. -- Rod Smith [email protected] http://www.rodsbooks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
