On Monday 17 November 2008 17:39:31 Matt Sealey wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > 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 > > It doesn't work; I get a lot of errors about asm/blah.h include files being > missing. > > make MPC8610HPCN_config > make BIN_FILES="mkimage" > > this works fine though. I also tried filling out ARCH=ppc into config.mk > just in case, but it's obvious some weird arch setup is being done to glue > in the right includes. So, I symlinked asm-ppc to asm, just like mkconfig > does, and this made it at least get to compile. > > So the correct solution is; > > touch include/config.h include/config.mk > ln -sf include/asm-ppc include/asm > make BIN_FILES="mkimage" tools > > (this also builds bmp_logo for some reason.. I don't quite understand why?)
while yes, you'll see a lot of errors, they dont actually matter. just ignore them and you'll get the right tools built up. -mike
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