From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Building fw_printenv (u-boot utility) for target? References: <87ocbpa53t.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2010-09-22, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> I want fw_printenv on my target, and it would be convenient if >> buildroot built it and set up the relvent links. But, AFAICT, I >> can't have buildroot build the fw_printenv utility without having it >> do a complete build of U-Boot. I don't have any need/desire for >> buildroot to build the bootloader itself, I only need the fw_printenv >> linux app for the target. Is that possible with buildroot? > > Currently not, is it a big deal to build u-boot as well? Mainly it's a hassle because it adds quite a bit to the build time. Currently, I change my rootfs far more often than I change the U-Boot sources or configuration. Doing a U-Boot rebuild every time I change my root filesystem wastes a lot of time. > The reason for this is mainly that fw_printenv isn't available > seperately, so we would need to double quite a lot of the u-boot > handling if we were to move it to a seperate package, and they are > most of the time used together. That makes sense. >> Or should I just build fw_printenv separately and stick it into the >> filesystem using the custom package? > > That's naturally an option as well. I guess I'll stick with that. Thanks. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Do you guys know we at just passed thru a BLACK gmail.com HOLE in space?