Hi Wolfgang,

I have been facing an issue while building u-boot for AT91SAM9263ek board. The environment I am using is CYGWIN and toolchain is the Code sourcery toolchain.

The make configuration step works fine while "make CROSS_COMPILE " step throws the following error:

make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-

Generating include/autoconf.mk

include/common.h:37: fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

Generating include/autoconf.mk.dep

include/common.h:37: fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

make: *** [include/autoconf.mk.dep] Error 1

While going through the files in u-boot I made the following observations:

The config.mk available in the TOPDIR of the u-boot folder has the following variable definition:

gccincdir := $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)

CPPFLAGS += -I$(TOPDIR)/include

CPPFLAGS += -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -nostdinc \

-isystem $(gccincdir) -pipe $(PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS)

Where $(TOPDIR)/include = /u-boot-2010.09-rc2/include

(AND)

$(gccincdir) = is the cross compiler's include library, which in my case is, c:/cygwin/home/e458110/linuxproj/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnu eabi/4.4.1/include

From what I can understand from this, the -I flag makes the u-boot

/INCLUDE directory to be the first in list to search for header files while preprocessing and -isystem flag asks the compiler to consider the cross compiler's as the system directory or search for system headers.

Now I went make to common.h file which is throwing the error given above and observed that config.h is defined in angle brackets:

i.e. #include <config.h>

So what I feel is happening here is that the compiler only searches its own include directory for headers since the files are in < > brackets. When I copy all the files in the uboot /include directory to the compiler's include the build process starts while fails at some point since some autogenerated header files are created in the u-boot/include by default and needs to be moved to the compiler's include each time proceed.

I could go about changing the #include <config.h> to #include "config.h" but this is going to be very tedious and time consuming as the entire u-boot code needs to be changed for this.

I tried various combinations of gcc flags for the variable CPPFLAGS, all failed for reasons which I was able to trace back.

Has this condition been observed before and is there any work around for it? Also, please correct me if my understanding is wrong. I am at crucial point in my project would be delighted to have support at the earliest.

Regards,

Shyama