On Monday 17 November 2008 16:05:44 Matt Sealey wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 15:15:09 Matt Sealey wrote: > >> We have a need to build and package at the very least 'mkimage' for SuSE > >> 11.1 and since we have multiple board targets in mind (MPC8641D, > >> MPC8610, MPC5121e) it does not make any sense to pick any in particular > >> or build the entire u-boot.bin just for a few kilobytes we need to prep > >> kernels and initrd images. > >> > >> Is it possible to simply build the tools/ directory (a make target that > >> works would be great) without building a firmware from BLAH_config > >> first? > > > > you can see the method we use in Gentoo here: > > http://sources.gentoo.org/dev-embedded/u-boot-tools/ > > Ouch. > > > but i'd agree that i wish it were easier to just build the helper > > utilities. and if they werent so tightly intertwined with the rest of the > > u-boot code ... atm you cant build mkimage on a non-Linux system due to > > the libfdt stuff. > > Am I reading this right.. I'm using SUSE 11.0 here so I guess I do > > touch include/config.h include/config.mk > make HOSTSTRIP=echo BIN_FILES="mkimage" > > And that'd do it? I'll have to check it out later..
should be ... seemed to work for me btw, we do HOSTSTRIP=echo in Gentoo only because we dont let packages strip things themselves ... it's not like u-boot will break things otherwise -mike
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