On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:50:57 +0100 Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 21-02-15 14:51, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The sunxi-tools repository contains the 'fel' utility, which allows > > booting Allwinner devices over USB using the FEL mode. The upcoming > > u-boot v2015.04 is going to use the new 'spl' command, recently added > > to the 'fel' tool. > > > > As I can see, sunxi-tools is packaged at least in debian and fedora: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/sunxi-tools > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/sunxi-tools/ > > > > So it might make sense to prepare the new sunxi-tools release v1.3 and > > let the linux distributions pick it up eventually. > > I agree that doing a 1.3 release once you've solved the A13 issue would > be a good idea. > > > Regarding packaging, there are some pull requests on github, which try > > to add autotools support. I have quickly looked at these patches and did > > not quite like them. They add autogenerated files to git, which is not a > > great idea. And also they don't seem to really solve the problem of the > > need to use two toolchains at once (part of the build needs to be done > > by the compiler from the host machine, and part of the build needs to > > be done by an arm crosscompiler). > > > > Still it would be nice to fit the build into the standard sequence: > > > > autogen > > configure > > make > > make install > > > > Where the 'autogen' script is necessary to run after cloning from git, > > but is optional when building the sources after extracting them from > > tarballs. > > > > Maybe we can handle the arm crosscompiler stuff in the 'autogen' step? > > And then the rest of the build would only need just a normal C compiler. > > Does anyone have any experience properly taking care of things like > > this? Any better ideas? > > Moving to autotools would be good, but is IMHO not really that important, > I would certainly not want this to delay the 1.3 release. I most definitely don't want to spend time doing any continuous sunxi-tools development, so it would be best to solve all the problems right now and forget about it. We might want to push sunxi-tools into more Linux distributions than just Debian and Fedora. And the maintainers of these distributions could be not very much impressed with the current quality of the sunxi-tools build process :) > As for having more experience, I'm afraid my experience with autotools > is limited, and I've no cross compilation autotools knowledge. OK. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
