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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2017-02-20 12:17:45 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2017-02-20 12:17:45 +0000
commit0e80cb2d55da87b49222e4109aa83a59ee5aa3ae (patch)
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README: Document build-all-archs and build-tree support
Add notes to the README about support for separate build directories and the build-all-archs script. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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(Example: CROSS_PREFIX=arm-linux-gnueabihf- )
For other possibilities run 'configure --help'.
+Building into a separate build tree from the source code is supported:
+ mkdir my-build-dir
+ cd my-build-dir
+ [VAR=VALUE] ... ../configure
+ make
+
+The build directory doesn't need to be inside the source tree;
+just run configure from inside it.
+
+For risu developers: there is a build-all-archs script which
+will automatically configure and build risu for every CPU
+architecture that we support and that you have a cross compiler
+installed for. This is useful for confirming that your changes
+to risu haven't broken anything.
+
Usage
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