How to build gen_mmap for target (ARM)

[Brian Clarke]

Will Newton wrote:

> On 3/14/07, Brian Clarke <brian.clarke at oxsemi.com> wrote:
>
>> I did read extra/locale/README. It suggests I need to 'run the mmap file
>> generator' on the target, but I can't work out how to do this. I
>> wondered whether the gen_mmap.c source was related to this, but there's
>> no target for this in the Makefile and my attempts to build it
>> separately have so far failed.
>>
>> Do you know whether gen_mmap.c is what produces to mmap file generator?
>> If so do you have any hints as to how to build it?
>
>
> I did it once, it was pretty painful. You do need to run gen_mmap on
> the target, even if you have the same endianness as the target to make
> sure alignment and struct packing are correct, it seems to be a
> crucial step. AFAICR you just need to run it with no arguments on the
> target, you'll probably need to hack the makefile to get it to build
> though.
>
> I recommend once you have it's output generated you check it into your
> source control. ;-)

Thanks for the info.

I'll put some more effort into getting gen_mmap.c to build.

Brian.