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Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Introduce separate HOST and TARGET compilation steps.]

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jon Loeliger<jdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:35 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jon Loeliger<jdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Do you agree or disagree with me when I say that the regdbdump program
>> > might need to be compiled twice -- once for the host and once for the
>> > target?
>>
>> Why?
>
> The existing binary regulatory DB binary is verified on the host
> using these rules.  (This is from my version of the makefile, but
> they are there in the original too.):
>
>    all: host target $(REG_BIN) $(BUILD_ALL) verify
>
>    verify: $(REG_BIN) host/regdbdump
>        $(NQ) '  CHK  $(REG_BIN)'
>        $(Q)./host/regdbdump $(REG_BIN) >/dev/null
>
> That is, as part of the host build process, the regdbdump tool
> is run *on the host*.

This helps to understand a little better some of your intentions, may
be good to mention this as part of your patches. Hm, interesting... I
suppose we don't want to just disable this check then.

> Ultimately, the regdbdump utility may *also* be needed or
> wanted on the target too.

ACK.

  Luis
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