Re: [Etherboot-developers] bin and bin32

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ke...@us... writes:

> What do you think of the idea of merging both directories as ia32?
> (bin was for stuff that was neither bin16 nor bin32, usually auxiliary
> binaries or prefixes, but there is no more bin16 so this distinction is
> no longer necessary.) Other architectures, when ported to, would then
> compile to binaries under the architecture name.
> 
> Just did a 2 minute experiment, s/bin(32)?/ia32/g in Makefile and
> genrules.pl, rm Roms, and it builds fine.

Can we merge everthing into just bin?

Unless we setup for cross compilers we cannot build for multiple
architectures simultaneously.  And currently I definitely cannot
build for LinuxBIOS and non LinuxBIOS simultaneously on the same
architecture.

What I would like to do is create a setup where I can have multiple
Config files and each Config file would have it's own seperate bin
directory.

The easiest way I can think to do that right now is:
1) reverse the includes and have Config include Makefile
   so we can be flexible about the name.
2) Have a variable in Config that specifies the bin directory,
   or the directory the bin directory lives in.
3) Have a variable in Config that specifies where the Etherboot
   source tree lives.

Being able to do:
make -f Config-lnxi blah
make -f Config-lnxi-lb blah

And generate all of the romimages I need would be very nice
when I am generating a binary rpm with all of the romimages I need.
And it would make compile testing with different Config easy 
as well.

Eric