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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc•org>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: make install on ppc
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:02:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603281402.02449.hollis@penguinppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44298929.1060003@am.sony.com>

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:06, you wrote:
> Problem is for multi-platform binary builds, 'install' could mean differe=
nt
> things for the different platforms, so to support install, there needs
> to be some way to tell the build system what 'install' means that also
> works with the muti-platform makefile logic. =C2=A0The current powerpc ma=
kefiles
> don't have this, and it would take some non-trivial rework to add it.

That is for the distribution- or user-supplied installkernel script to deal=
=20
with.

> There is also the question of what install means when cross building.

So don't run make install when cross-compiling (unless of course your=20
installkernel script supports that).

I don't understand these objections. If someone's platform is so super-spec=
ial=20
that a script couldn't possibly know how to install a kernel, just don't ru=
n=20
make install!

=2DHollis

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-21 14:08 [Fwd: Re: make install on ppc] Hans Fugal
2006-03-26 19:26 ` make install on ppc Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-26 20:43   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-03-26 21:44   ` Hans Fugal
2006-03-27  1:42     ` Jin Qi Huang
2006-03-27  1:56       ` Brent Cook
2006-03-28  3:43         ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-28  3:59           ` Jin Qi Huang
2006-03-28 19:06           ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-28 20:02             ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2006-03-28 20:30               ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-28 21:13               ` Paul Mackerras

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