[OE-core] [PATCH v2] u-boot.inc: Add host compiler flags and openssl-native dependency

[Nathan Rossi]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
>>>> U-Boot will compile its own tools during the build, with specific
>>>> configurations (aka when CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is enabled) the host tools
>>>> require openssl. This patch adds 'openssl' as a PACKAGECONFIG that
>>>> enables the use of openssl-native as a dependency and also adds the
>>>> HOSTCC flags that U-Boot uses when compiling the host tools.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com>
>>>
>>> Ideally we ought to ensure U-Boot stops to build the native part when
>>> doing the target one.
>>
>> Are you suggesting that the compile step (of the recipe) should build
>> the "tools"/native make target first, then execute the make target for
>> the rest afterwards as two separate steps?
>
> Two separated _recipes_.

Ah ok, to some degree that already exists with the u-boot-mkimage and
u-boot-fw-utils recipes. However the problem is that there is
currently no easy way (at least with mainline U-Boot) to get U-Boot to
use the tools provided by the host/sysroot/PATH instead of building
them.

Regards,
Nathan