Building additional binaries

[Jason Schoon]

On 7/4/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 7:13 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > I had been using the following patch to build a bFLT binary in the
> > top-level Makefile. This configuration should be accomplished in the
> > .config.mak file in the output directory. Unfortunately, it's not as
> > simple as adding `all: busybox.bflt' to .config.mak, because
> > .config.mak is included from Rules.mak and by every Makefile, not just
> > the top-level. So, I added `busybox: busybox.bflt' to .config.mak,
> > which is a bit of a hack, but works. In any case, I thought I'd poll
> > the mailing list for a better solution. Perhaps the `all' target of
> > the top-level Makefile should depend on a phony `all-extra' target
> > that could be defined by .config.mak.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?  You're not adding another applet to
> busybox, you're building an external binary with strange dependencies on
> busybox internals?


He is building in bFLT format (uClinux binary flat format) rather than ELF.
Seems like a worthwhile and hopefully not insurmountable task.
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