[U-Boot] recent tools on FreeBSD

[Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>]

Hi Jeroen,

On 8 February 2015 at 03:03, Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl> wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
>
> On 07-02-15 22:02, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>
>>> If this still fails, you can always build it from source, but needs a bit
>>> of
>>> patience.
>>> Somthing like this should always work:
>>>
>>> portsnap fetch
>>> portsnap extract
>>>
>>> cd /usr/ports/devel/git
>>> make config-recursive
>>> make
>>> make install
>>>
>>> Let me know if you still have issues.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeroen
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] (as root)
>>>
>>> pkg install nano git
>>> git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
>>> git checkout v2015.01 -b b2015.01
>>> cd u-boot
>>> pkg install arm-gnueabi-binutils gmake
>>>
>>> gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi -no-integrated-as -mllvm
>>> -arm-use-movt=0" rpi_defconfig
>>> gmake CROSS_COMPILE=arm-gnueabi-freebsd- CC="clang -target
>>> arm-freebsd-eabi
>>> -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0
>>> -B/usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-" CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=y
>>>
>> Is this for using an ARM cross-compiler? What should I do for building
>> the tools? I keep seeing 'gcc not found'.
>
>
> Yes it is for cross building. So the host clang / host ld do the native
> build, the host clang with some help from arm-gnueabi-freebsd-as and
> arm-gnueabi-freebsd-ld do the cross build.
>
> If you only want  to build tools for the host you need something like:
>
> gmake CC=cc sandbox_config tools
>
> Since CC is defined to $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc it ends up being gcc when
> CROSS_COMPILE is not set, hence you get the 'gcc not found' errors.

Thanks for your help. I have a FreeBSD running now and can build the
tools with your patch.

Regards,
Simon