Questions about openfirmware build environment

[llandre]

>> 1) During building, some *.public, *.bin and *.img files are 
>> downloaded. What are these files?
>>   
> 
> *.public - public keys for the OLPC security mechanism.  When an OLPC 
> ...
Ok, thanks for the clear explanation.

>> 2) I see a couple of warnings during building of memtest module:
>>
>> ld: warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `random.o' is 
>> incompatible with i386 output
>>
>> I think this is due to the missing explicit target in 
>> clients/memtest/Makefile. Thus the compiler is invoked with default 
>> settings and generates an x86-64 object file.
>>   
> 
> Thanks, I just checked in a new copy of the Makefile with an explicit 
> rule for random.o
Fine.

>> 3) In memtset Makefile I had to comment out this line:
>> CCFLAGS += -fno-stack-protector
>> because gcc 3.4.6 does not recognize it. Is this safe?
>>   
> 
> Yes, it is safe.  The "no-stack-protector" flag is needed for some 
> distributions that have different default compilation options.  If your 
> compiler doesn't support the flag, the flag is not needed.
Ok.


Regards,
llandre

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