On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote: > When we send patches, we are supposed to test them by build utilities > such as MAKEALL, buildman. When we want to test global changes, the > first hurdle is, I think, to collect toolchains for all the architectures. > > We have some documents about build utilities, but I have not seen any > official information about how to get the suitable cross-tools. > Of course, it is possible to build them from sources, but it is not > necessarily feasible. > > Fortunately, the kernel.org site provides us pre-built toolchains, but > some architectures are missing. Also, some boards fail to build with > the kernel.org tools. We sometimes see, "where can I get the compiler > for this architecture?" things on the ML. We should be able to prepare > cross-compilers more easily. > > It is true that buildman provides --fetch-arch option for downloading > kernel.org toolchains, but it does not have access to others. And what > we really want to know is most likely how to get compilers for such minor > architectures as kernel.org does not provide. > > This tool intends to be more generic design without hard-coding such > kernel.org things. > > To achieve that, this tool consists of two files: > Python script (this file) and the database file containing URLs of tarballs. > > We just need to update the latter when new version compilers are released > (or better compilers are found.) The file is in the form of RFC 822 for > easier editing. > > The script only uses Python libraries, not relies on external programs > although it displays wget-like log when downloading tarballs. :-) > > This is RFC because I am thinking it can be more brushed up. > If the basis idea is OK, I will improve code, add more comments. > > Note this script is written in Python 3 and only works on Python 3.3 > or later. I do not think it is too much limitation, but some popular > distributions under support might include older version. For example, > looks like Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is shipped with Python 3.2. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > ---
Also, in case you didn't notice, you have a typo in the subject of the patch. "toolchais". -Joe _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
