[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] mfgtools: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:23:09 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> This package contains the Freescale manufacturing tool.
> It is designed to program firmware to i.MX boards during production.
> The communication is done over USB using the Freescale UTP protocol.
> 
> The project is maintained on NXPMicro Github repository:
> https://github.com/NXPmicro/mfgtools
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>

Thanks for this package.

> A couple of remarks. First here is the procedure I followed to test it:
> $ cd output
> $ mkdir -p "Profiles/Linux/OS Firmware/firmware"
> $ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/boundarydevices.com/ucl2.xml \
>   -O Profiles/Linux/OS\ Firmware/ucl2.xml
> $ cp images/u-boot.imx images/zImage images/imx6q-sabrelite.dtb \
>   images/rootfs.cpio.uboot Profiles/Linux/OS\ Firmware/firmware/
> $ ./host/usr/bin/mfgtoolcli -l mmc -s uboot_defconfig=imx \
>   -s dtbname=imx6q-sabrelite.dtb -s initramfs=rootfs.cpio.uboot \
>   -s mmc=2 -p 1
> 
> Note sure if you want this to be in the commit log.

Either in the Config.in help text, or in package/mfgtools/readme.txt.
We have already mentioned such a possibility for another package, and I
think we should start doing it.

> Also, not sure if the DEVELOPERS file should be updated within this
> patch or if it should be part of a follow-up patch.

As a follow-up patch.

> +MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS = $(HOST_CFLAGS)
> +MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS += -l pthread -Wl,-rpath=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib
> +MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS += -l usb-1.0 -I$(HOST_DIR)/usr/include/libusb-1.0
> +MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS += -L . -l MfgToolLib -I$(@D)/MfgToolLib
> +MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS += -fpermissive -Wno-write-strings

Please use:

MFGTOOLS_CFLAGS = \
	... \
	... \
	...

Please remove the space between -l and the library name. Also
-Wl,-rpath=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib is already part of $(HOST_CFLAGS), so
you can get rid of this part.

> +define HOST_MFGTOOLS_CONFIGURE_CMDS
> +	$(HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(MAKE) CMAKE=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/cmake \
> +		-C $(@D)/TestPrgm cmake
> +endef

This build system is really completely brain-damaged. I would suggest
to instead use the host-cmake-package infrastructure with a proper
_SUBDIR so that it builds the library, and then a simple post-build
hook to build the CLI tool.

And of course, submit a bug report upstream to tell them to use CMake
for the whole thing rather than doing this crap.

> +define HOST_MFGTOOLS_INSTALL_CMDS
> +	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 $(@D)/TestPrgm/libMfgToolLib.so $(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib
> +	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 $(@D)/TestPrgm/mfgtoolcli $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin

Full destination path needed when using $(INSTALL) -D.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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