Sometimes it is required to build only host U-Boot tools without building U-Boot itself for either board. For example: * In "buildroot" "uboot-tools" could be built for host just to have an ability to create uImage. * Linux distributions ship "mkimage" utility as a separate substance. This patch allows building host U-Boot tools separately from U-Boot itself and what is more important user only needs to have host compiler (gcc). To build host tools just execute: ===== make tools HOST_TOOLS_ONLY=yes ===== Without this patch to generate tools user needs: 1. Configure any existing board with "make XXX_config" 2. Execute tools building but still cross-compiler will be invoked and if there's no proper cross-compiler in PATH compilation will fail. Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Tom Rini Cc: Simon Glass --- u-boot-2014.07.orig/Makefile 2014-07-14 19:16:45.000000000 +0200 +++ u-boot-2014.07/Makefile 2014-08-11 10:06:13.315946952 +0200 @@ -483,9 +483,12 @@ ifeq ($(dot-config),1) # load other configuration include $(srctree)/config.mk +# Don't check for config.mk presence if building host tools only +ifneq ($(HOST_TOOLS_ONLY),yes) ifeq ($(wildcard include/config.mk),) $(error "System not configured - see README") endif +endif # If board code explicitly specified LDSCRIPT or CONFIG_SYS_LDSCRIPT, use # that (or fail if absent). Otherwise, search for a linker script in a @@ -1055,10 +1058,14 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD),y) @/bin/false endif endif + +# Don't check for ldscript presence if building host tools only +ifneq ($(HOST_TOOLS_ONLY),yes) ifeq ($(wildcard $(LDSCRIPT)),) @echo >&2 " Could not find linker script." @/bin/false endif +endif archprepare: prepare1 scripts_basic