Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> 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.
Yes I think this is along the right track. I tried MAKEALL a long time ago and it didn't work (just got an error about incorrect architecture) so I assumed it was broken. Apart from full docs, it would be good to have a place to download all the toolchains needed for MAKEALL. Regards, Simon > -mike > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot