[U-Boot] MAKEALL

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 13:58:22 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 October 2011 02:23:10 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >>       Before sending the patch, you must run the MAKEALL script on
> >>       your patched source tree and make sure that no errors or
> >>       warnings are reported for any of the boards. Well, at least
> >>       not any more warnings than without your patch.
> >> 
> >>       It is strongly recommended to verify that out-of-tree building
> >>       (with "-O" make option resp. "BUILD_DIR" environment variable)
> >>       is still working. For example, run:
> >> 
> >>       $ BUILD_DIR=/tmp/u-boot-build ./MAKEALL
> >> 
> >> Why is nobody doing this?
> > 
> > because MAKEALL is a pita to use.  it has no automatic CROSS_COMPILE
> > support, and the current logic only allows
> > one-CROSS_COMPILE-setting-per-run.  so you have to run MAKEALL by hand
> > once per arch.
> > 
> > the documentation you quote only shows running MAKEALL for powerpc (since
> > that's the default), so even the docs are a bit unclear.
> > 
> > ideally, MAKEALL should be intelligent and automatically find an
> > appropriate toolchain if one isn't setup in the env.  much like the
> > buildall script i posted recently.
> 
> If we're going to throw out feature requests, I'd like more than one
> SoC family support.
> I've got a wrapper around MAKEALL right now to build omap3 then omap4
> then davinci.

well, i think yours has a much easier chance of being implemented.  and should 
be trivial to do with boards_by_soc.  although i think i have a better idea.  
i'll post a patch.
-mike
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