[coreboot-gerrit] New patch to review for coreboot: README: improve description of compiler requirements
Patrick Georgi (pgeorgi@google.com)
gerrit at coreboot.org
Thu Jul 23 21:10:00 CEST 2015
Patrick Georgi (pgeorgi at google.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/11047
-gerrit
commit 438b506c5dd39de56682bc6900097cbefe923a08
Author: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi at chromium.org>
Date: Thu Jul 23 21:08:30 2015 +0200
README: improve description of compiler requirements
People run into "building bootblock without the required toolchain" too often.
Update documentation so they don't try to use random compilers to build
coreboot.
Change-Id: I9715b52a4bac9b886cc5627add074c04e06a0828
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi at chromium.org>
---
README | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2c25bef..357ec02 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -41,15 +41,22 @@ For details please consult:
Build Requirements
------------------
- * gcc / g++
* make
+ * gcc / g++
+ Because Linux distribution compilers tend to use lots of patches. coreboot
+ does lots of "unusual" things in its build system, some of which break due
+ to those patches, sometimes by gcc aborting, sometimes - and that's worse -
+ by generating broken object code.
+ Two options: use our toolchain (eg. make crosstools-i386) or enable the
+ ANY_TOOLCHAIN Kconfig option if you're feeling lucky (no support in this
+ case).
+ * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
Optional:
* doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation)
- * iasl (for targets with ACPI support)
* gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets)
- * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig')
+ * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig' and 'make nconfig')
* flex and bison (for regenerating parsers)
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