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

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 02:36:55 CEST 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.

actually, I installed lar in my path on v3 and only had trouble with
that setup once. In fact, the long term vision for tools like LAR and
romtool is that they be usable and functional outside the build tree.

But this is not a burning issue for me either way.

ron




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