Building additional binaries

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 18:51:40 UTC 2006


On 7/5/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:37 am, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > On 7/5/06, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 00:51, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > > > He is building in bFLT format (uClinux binary flat format) rather
> than
> > > > ELF. Seems like a worthwhile and hopefully not insurmountable task.
> > >
> > > it's already integrated into the build system, Shaun just wants to let
> > > the user add it to the default build list
> > > -mike
> >
> > Seems (to me) like we should do something similar to the Linux kernel.
> >  They still have those options to choose whether you want support for
> > a.out, ELF, etc.
>
> That's what executable formats they support, not what kernel type is
> generated.  Specifying the kernel type you want is done via the make
> command
> line.  (You always get an elf kernel, vmlinux in the top level directory,
> and
> some systems actually boot that directly.  The others are generated from
> vmlinux.)
>

True, in that case it is specifying a feature, rather than a build
configuration.  As Shaun pointed out, this probably belongs on the command
line along with specifying cross-compiler and such.
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