Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]romfs: change the mechanism that builds the romtool utility

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 04.04.2009 01:08, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > Patrick Georgi wrote:
> > > romtool per-build
> >
> > Is it too much for us to ask that the cbfs tool is built and
> > installed into the build system? I think that would be ok.
>
> that's a reasonable idea.
>
> Just tell people that the tool needs to be executable and in PATH

Please don't. That will make incompatible changes for romtool
impossible. Just think of the child^Wpain we had with multiple lzma
implementations. v3 avoids the lzma problem by building lzma in the
build dir so we always know the lzma version.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel