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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
> 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.

I know but this seems to be the route we ought to pursuit.

-- 
Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
http://www.ossystems.com.br        http://code.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854            Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750