Re: Building only util

[Darren Hart]

On 11/25/2011 11:01 AM, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Darren Hart <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there a way to build only the util directory?
>>
>> There is a long story behind why I think this might be a good idea. It
>> has to do with packaging and cross compilation environments. I need to
>> build grub-mkimage for my build arch in order to assemble final efi
>> images, like bootia32.efi, but I also want to build everything for the
>> target arch for deployment.
>>
>> "make util/grub-mkimage" made a rather feeble attempt, but failed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Darren Hart
>> Intel Open Source Technology Center
>> Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
>>
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> 
> It sounds like you're trying to build the utilities for a different
> architecture (the "host" architecture) than the "target" architecture.
> Grub is designed to handle this without any manual workarounds like
> you seem to be trying to do. You didn't specify your host and target
> architecture but if you wanted to build utilities for a PowerPC host
> to install grub to be booted from an x86 PC, you would build grub by
> running ./configure like this (thanks to phcoder for this example):
> ./configure CC=powerpc-linux-gcc  --host=ppc-linux-gnu --target=i386
> --with-platform=pc TARGET_CC=i386-linux-gcc

Ah, thank you very much, that is most helpful.


-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel