On Wednesday 23 November 2022 13:18:40 Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:52:22AM +0100, Max Krummenacher wrote: > > > From: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenac...@toradex.com> > > > > With LTO enabled the U-Boot initial environment is no longer stored > > in an easy accessible section in env/common.o. I.e. the section name > > changes from build to build, its content maybe compressed and it is > > annotated with additional data. > > > > Drop trying to read the initial env with elf tools from the compiler > > specific object file in favour of adding and using a host tool with > > the only functionality of printing the initial env to stdout. > > > > See also: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/927b122e-1f62-e790-f5ca-30bae4332...@foss.st.com/ > > > > Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenac...@toradex.com> > > Acked-by: Pali Rohár <p...@kernel.org> > > Alright, so 'make tools-only_defconfig tools-only' now fails to build > because we're missing the dependencies to make sure that we have > generated/environment.h available. > https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/jobs/532186
We cannot generate generated/environment.h in tools-only mode without real board because environment is always board dependent. Therefore that new env tool has to be compiled only when doing full real board build, not just tools-only build. So I would suggest to extend Makefile put that new tool under some "if" to exclude compilation in tools-only mode.
