On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > > What would be actually your suggestion? > > For sunxi-tools: simple makefile with a working 'make install > DESTDIR=/path/foo'.
...which installs not-too-generically named binaries, with that: ack from me too. WRT not-too-generically named: e.g. usb-boot and bootinfo are certainly too generic, so in Debian I add a sunxi- prefix. fel, fexc etc might be OK, but there's some potential for a clash (mostly due to them being quite short acronym fodder). I ended up prefixing them sunxi- in Debian for consistency with the other binaries. My preference would be for everything to be prefixed (perhaps unless it's not actually sunxi specific somehow and just happens to live in sunxi-tools). > 1) Makefile with working make install > 2) autotools That would be my order of preference too. I think the sunxi-tools build is simple enough that just supporting and correctly using $(HOSTCC) and $(CROSS_COMPILE)$(CC) (and AS, LD etc) would be sufficient, even for the sort of canadian cross-compiles discussed elsewhere in this thread, without needing to go to full autotools (but I could live with the latter). WRT needing a cross compiler, I think all which is really needed for lots of the useful stuff is a cross binutils (specifically $(CROSS_COMPILE)$(AS)). Currently the build uses gcc to drive as+ld for building .S into .elf, but I think it could use as+ld directly without much effort. There are some trivial .c programs (fel-sdboot.c) which could easily be rewritten in asm. I think there would still be one or two things which are C which couldn't be done this way, but this would get far better coverage in distro builds with very little effort. The reason I mention cross-gcc vs cross-binutils is that for distros providing a cross binutils is generally pretty trivial, it's only once you get into cross-gcc and "which libc do I use" type questions that things get tricky and tend to stagnate. FWIW Debian has a cross binutils package targeting arm already and will ship it in the next release (Jessie). BTW, looking at the current makefiles it seems that we pass a load of options when building .S files which only make sense when compiling from .c (e.g. -Wno-format-nonliteral etc). Ian. -- 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 linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
