[email protected] skrev: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > >> Many packages support installing the resulting binary in another >> location, but U-Boot does not. >> >> When you use buildsystems like buildroot and openembedded, >> you want to collect the end result in a target directory, >> and while you can use internal knowledge about u-boot >> to do so, it seems cleaner to me, to do a "make DESTDIR install". >> >> Since you may want to put the binaries for several >> boards in the same directory (like /tftpboot) >> it is not always good to call the binary simply u-boot.bin. >> >> I guess "make DESTDIR=<destination> TARGET=<name> install" would work >> >> Alternatively, we collect the final binary from several variables, >> >> openembedded typically calls the end binary: >> ${MACHINE}-u-boot-${U_BOOT_VERSION}-${REVISION}.bin >> >> Feedback? > > IMHO it is not worth the effort... U-Boot builds its binary in source root > and there is no "make install" at all. When one builds RPM or whatever > packages (as I do) it is not big deal to move the resulting binary elsewhere > with a single "mv" command. >
You forget that things change, and the "make install" puts the responsibility for handling the installation inside u-boot instead of outside u-boot. u-boot is not only u-boot, since you have u-boot-tools which are used to create the image and also tools which can be running on the target. Assume that a tool for the target is added and other tools rely on that tool? Since you have not updated your external Makefile to also "mv" that file, you will be delivering a broken system. The effort is probably considerably less than what is spent on discussing many items on this list. > --- > ****************************************************************** > * k...@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * > * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * > ****************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
