[U-Boot] [PATCH] makefiles: fixes/cleanup for building build tools

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 15:34:10 Scott Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:57:50PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > perhaps it would make more sense to create a HOSTCOMPILE/HOSTLINK (or
> > whatever) variable so this kind of thing isnt missed ?
> > HOSTCOMPILE = $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS)
> > HOSTLINK = $(HOSTCOMPILE) $(HOSTLDFLAGS)
> 
> Maybe.  What about PEDCFLAGS?  Should that be the default for HOSTCOMPILE,
> and then have a HOSTCOMPILENOPED?

i think the intention was to build everything with -pedantic.  so add it to 
the default flags and drop the distinction completely.  it'd make the 
resulting build code a lot simpler.

> > > It restores easylogo to using the host compiler, which was broken by
> > > commit 38d299c2db81bd889c601b5dfc12c4e83ef83333 (if this was an
> > > intentional change, please let me know -- but it seems to be a build
> > > tool).
> >
> > it was intentional, but for different reasons.  easylogo isnt integrated
> > into the u-boot build system, so in order to compile things in there, you
> > had to go into the subdir and manually run `make`.  if it were integrated
> > into the build system like all other tools, then converting to host tools
> > is fine.  but unless i missed something, it doesnt appear to be ?  and
> > now, going into the subdir and running `make` wont work either ...
> 
> I was expecting it to be built by adding easylogo to TOOLSUBDIRS (it would
> be better if there were a distinct make target for it, but that's another
> patch).  Other tools such as gdb already assume they're being run in this
> manner.

where does TOOLSUBDIRS get changed ?  i dont see any place in u-boot where it 
is set and your patch doesnt change that from what i can see.
-mike
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