From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@au.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not fail build if mkimage is not available
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:21:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712232221.35183.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071223140516.4fed7dd0@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>
On Sunday 23 December 2007 21:05:16 Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:31:08 +0100
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> > This fixes the boot image wrapper script to not fail the kernel
> > build if mkimage is not available.
> > As some distributions don't ship the mkimage program and I am not
> > interested in uboot images anyway, I don't want to fail the whole kernel
> > build process because of this unneeded dependency.
> >
> > Simply drop an error message, but don't fail the build.
>
> This is probably OK for now, but I'm working on getting mkimage merged
> into the kernel so it will just get ripped back out later if I'm
> successful.
Yeah, cool. I am fine with this. :)
I just don't want to install a tool into my operating system that
I do not need. Shipping it with the kernel is the best option.
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-23 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-23 19:31 [PATCH] Do not fail build if mkimage is not available Michael Buesch
2007-12-23 20:05 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-23 21:21 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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