[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] uboot-tools: bump to version 2014.04

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Wed Apr 30 07:19:59 UTC 2014


Hi Peter,

On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 09:16 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> writes:
> 
>  > U-Boot v2014.04 introduced significant changes in its build infrastrcture.
>  > Among things related to buildroot are:
>  > 1. Special new target ("tools-only") was added for building host tools alone
> 
>  > 2. Tools cross-building for target is no longer possible with substitution of
>  > HOSTxx with TARGETxx because host binaries won't be built. Instead we just set
>  > CROSS_COMPILE and CROSS_BUILD_TOOLS variables.
> 
>  > 3. Most of make targets now require U-Boot to be configured before building.
>  > So for building generic "fw_printenv" we now need to make "env" target config-
>  > independent.
> 
>  > 4. HOSTCPPFLAGS are only applicable to .cpp files so dropping
>  > "uboot-tools-02-hostcflags-override-fix.patch"
> 
> That's not true. They are flags for the preprocessor. You must be
> confusing them with CXXFLAGS.
> 
> With that said, I think we're passing everything from HOST_CPPFLAGS
> through HOST_CFLAGS as well, so it shouldn't matter.

Ok I think I did confused wit CXXFLAGS.

But I haven't found any mention of HOSTCPPFLAGS in current U-Boot so I'm
wondering if we still need to add any handling of HOSTCPPFLAGS in U-Boot
or there's nothing to be done?

Regards,
Alexey


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