Hi Norman,

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I'm exploring writing a simple uart driver for linux in order to get terminal_mux working on linux. When I disable the linux spec check in terminal_mux.run, the build always picks up:

Program drivers/uart/spec/x86/uart_drv

even though I created a drivers/uart/spec/linux/

and changed drivers/uart/spec/linux/target.mk to read

REQUIRES = linux

and the etc/specs.conf in the build directory to read:

SPECS += linux x86_64

I'd like to know how I can get the build to say

Program drivers/uart/spec/linux/uart_drv

I suspect that the build system actually picks up and builds both targets because each of them meets the SPECS as defined for the build directory. The problem is that the targets are named the same. So the symlink in '<build-dir>/bin' is overwriten by the target last visited. To check this assumption, you may have a look at the content of the build locations for the two drivers in question:

<build-dir>/drivers/uart/spec/linux <build-dir>/drivers/uart/spec/x86

I presume that each of those locations contains the respective executable.

In my case, I only had <build-dir>/drivers/uart/spec/x86 built, and no sign of spec/linux.

The best way to solve the ambiguity would be to give your driver a distinct name, e.g., by adding the following line in your 'spec/linux/target.mk' file:

TARGET = linux_uart_drv

Now, both drivers should appear in the bin/ directory side by side.

I did try this, but it didn't quite work because of the

include $(REP_DIR)/src/drivers/uart/target.inc

line at the bottom of spec/linux/target.mk which was copied over from the spec/x86/target.mk. The target.inc itself defines TARGET to uart_dev. Perhaps this might have something to do with the spec/linux/ driver not getting built.

When I removed that include line and copied over the target.inc contents minus the TARGET line, it indeed functioned like you said, with both drivers being built.

Thanks for the suggestions!

--prashanth