From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Sealey Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:05:44 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] Building tools without building firmware In-Reply-To: <200811161230.55500.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <4919E7CD.2060005@genesi-usa.com> <200811161230.55500.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <4921DCA8.3070304@genesi-usa.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 15:15:09 Matt Sealey wrote: >> We have a need to build and package at the very least 'mkimage' for SuSE >> 11.1 and since we have multiple board targets in mind (MPC8641D, MPC8610, >> MPC5121e) it does not make any sense to pick any in particular or build the >> entire u-boot.bin just for a few kilobytes we need to prep kernels and >> initrd images. >> >> Is it possible to simply build the tools/ directory (a make target that >> works would be great) without building a firmware from BLAH_config first? > > you can see the method we use in Gentoo here: > http://sources.gentoo.org/dev-embedded/u-boot-tools/ Ouch. > but i'd agree that i wish it were easier to just build the helper utilities. > and if they werent so tightly intertwined with the rest of the u-boot code ... > atm you cant build mkimage on a non-Linux system due to the libfdt stuff. Am I reading this right.. I'm using SUSE 11.0 here so I guess I do touch include/config.h include/config.mk make HOSTSTRIP=echo BIN_FILES="mkimage" And that'd do it? I'll have to check it out later.. -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations