i spent a few minutes earlier this morning building the latest u-boot for my beagleboard using the ELDK 4.2 arm toolchain on my 64-bit fedora 11 system and since google showed me there was some discussion as to how to do that on 64-bit debian, i figured i'd just verify that what i did seemed sane.

i downloaded the ELDK 4.2 arm iso and installed, at which point i got numerous errors about a missing zlib library. since i already had glibc.i586 installed for other reasons, i just did:

# yum install zlib.i586

at which point another attempt at installing ELDK worked fine.

at that point, i just did the following for the latest "git pull" of u-boot (the "master" branch"):

$ make omap3_beagle_config $ make

and the build worked without a single diagnostic. haven't had a chance to flash and try it yet, but the end results:

-rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 702862 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot -rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 182500 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.bin -rw-rw-r--. 1 rpjday rpjday 174549 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.map -rwxrwxr-x. 1 rpjday rpjday 547628 2009-08-19 10:45 u-boot.srec

$ file u-boot u-boot: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped $

look reasonable. all in all, pretty simple unless someone wants to point out anything i did wrong. if i screwed up, it's just going on an SD card so there's little chance of me breaking anything.

rday --

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