Re: KICKSTART_LINKBASE and build process

Espen Skoglund <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Espen Skoglund]
> [Martin Christian]
>> Hi!
>> This time I've got a generic question about the build process:

>> I need to change the start address of the bootloader, because
>> Pistachio shall be loaded from flash memory. I found that the
>> KICKSTART_LINKBASE is specified twice, in "user/util/config.mk" and
>> "user/util/configure.in". Is one created by the other? I know, I had
>> to do an "autoheader; autoconf" thing in the beginning but I didn't
>> check what they did. Which file is for which process? Maybe someone
>> could just outline which step takes which input and produces which
>> output?

>> Yes, one day in future I'll go through all the autoX manuals to
>> understand the build process used in OpenSource projects. But this
>> far I got along with just using them ... ;-)

> As documented in 'INSTALL' and 'configure --help', you can change
> the sigma0 linkbase using the option '--with-sigma0-linkbase=X' to
> the configure script.  No need to read the autoX manuals.

And by sigma0-linkbase I here, I mean kickstart-linkbase.  :-/

	eSk
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