From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:23:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [U-Boot] building u-boot using ELDK on 64-bit fedora 11 Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de i spent a few minutes earlier this morning building the latest u-boot for my beagleboard using the ELDK 4.2 arm toolchain on my 64-bit fedora 11 system and since google showed me there was some discussion as to how to do that on 64-bit debian, i figured i'd just verify that what i did seemed sane. i downloaded the ELDK 4.2 arm iso and installed, at which point i got numerous errors about a missing zlib library. since i already had glibc.i586 installed for other reasons, i just did: # yum install zlib.i586 at which point another attempt at installing ELDK worked fine. at that point, i just did the following for the latest "git pull" of u-boot (the "master" branch"): $ make omap3_beagle_config $ make and the build worked without a single diagnostic. haven't had a chance to flash and try it yet, but the end results: -rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 702862 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot -rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 182500 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.bin -rw-rw-r--. 1 rpjday rpjday 174549 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.map -rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 547628 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.srec $ file u-boot u-boot: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped $ look reasonable. all in all, pretty simple unless someone wants to point out anything i did wrong. if i screwed up, it's just going on an SD card so there's little chance of me breaking anything. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================