[Buildroot] [PATCH v2, 1/1] package/uboot-tools: fix MKIMAGE_ARCH handling

[Yann E. MORIN]

Fabrice, All,

On 2021-09-11 18:25 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine spake thusly:
> Le sam. 11 sept. 2021 à 18:16, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> a écrit :
> > On 2021-09-11 18:07 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine spake thusly:
> > > Le sam. 11 sept. 2021 à 14:55, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> a écrit :
> > > > On 2021-09-08 18:45 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine spake thusly:
> > > > > Fix MKIMAGE_ARCH handling to avoid the following build failure:
> > [--SNIP--]
[--SNIP--]
> I'm wondering if those build failures are raised because of toolchain aliases.
> Indeed, it seems that openrisc can be defined as a alias to or1k:
> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/bbcacdf4cd23f2e5deb9ef916096c956c955243d/tools/buildman/README#L196
> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/a94ab561e2f49a80d8579930e840b810ab1a1330/tools/buildman/bsettings.py#L88
> 
> But I didn't find the root cause of these build failures, perhaps the
> toolchain-alias is overwritten?
> So I gave up and thought that this patch was an acceptable long-term solution.

Agreed. I believe the patch does the correct thing and is sound. Knowing
the underlying cause would have been nice, but I'm not going to complain
too much. ;-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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