From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:23:13 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] add 'license' command to u-boot?commandline In-Reply-To: <20080710111334.GA8546@prithivi.gnumonks.org> References: <20080709204205.E891A248FE@gemini.denx.de> <487577BC.2010106@gmail.com> <20080710111334.GA8546@prithivi.gnumonks.org> Message-ID: <4875F121.2060403@ge.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Harald Welte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:51:03PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote: > >> Even though I'm an enthusiastic Emacs user, I have different reasons for >> my vote. As far as build dependencies go, I'd like to restrict this to >> the LSB standard[1]. Xdd is not in there, so thats why I vote for the >> small C program (unless we can adapt the script and use 'od'). > > I think sticking to LSB for build dependencies is a very reasonable choice. > > I still don't think the small C program is that much of a problem: > > 1) dependency tracking should ensure it is only built when the license > feature is enabled by the board-level config. I think this will be > a minority case. > > 2) compilation of native programs has already to be possible since there > are other native tools such as mkimage built during the compilation > > Cheers, FWIIW, I agree with Detlev & Harald and withdraw my "bleah" objection. Best regards, gvb