This script was removed about 6 years ago so most people should be aware that it is not needed anymore. Drop mention of it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
(no changes since v3)
Changes in v3: - Add new patch to drop mention of MAKEALL
tools/buildman/buildman.rst | 110 ------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 110 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/buildman/buildman.rst b/tools/buildman/buildman.rst index ae0b60648d9..d0b7bbd2b0d 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/buildman.rst +++ b/tools/buildman/buildman.rst @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Buildman build tool ===================
-(Please read 'How to change from MAKEALL' if you are used to that tool) - Quick-start -----------
@@ -1250,114 +1248,6 @@ latter number depends on the speed of your machine and the efficiency of the U-Boot build.
-How to change from MAKEALL --------------------------- - -Buildman includes most of the features of MAKEALL and is generally faster -and easier to use. In particular it builds entire branches: if a particular -commit introduces an error in a particular board, buildman can easily show -you this, even if a later commit fixes that error. - -The reasons to deprecate MAKEALL are: -- We don't want to maintain two build systems -- Buildman is typically faster -- Buildman has a lot more features - -But still, many people will be sad to lose MAKEALL. If you are used to -MAKEALL, here are a few pointers. - -First you need to set up your tool chains - see the 'Setting up' section -for details. Once you have your required toolchain(s) detected then you are -ready to go. - -To build the current source tree, run buildman without a -b flag: - -.. code-block:: bash - - ./tools/buildman/buildman <list of things to build> - -This will build the current source tree for the given boards and display -the results and errors. - -However buildman usually works on entire branches, and for that you must -specify a board flag: - -.. code-block:: bash - - ./tools/buildman/buildman -b <branch_name> <list of things to build> - -followed by (afterwards, or perhaps concurrently in another terminal): - -.. code-block:: bash - - ./tools/buildman/buildman -b <branch_name> -s <list of things to build> - -to see the results of the build. Rather than showing you all the output, -buildman just shows a summary, with red indicating that a commit introduced -an error and green indicating that a commit fixed an error. Use the -e -flag to see the full errors and -l to see which boards caused which errors. - -If you really want to see build results as they happen, use -v when doing a -build (and -e to see the errors/warnings too). - -You don't need to stick around on that branch while buildman is running. It -checks out its own copy of the source code, so you can change branches, -add commits, etc. without affecting the build in progress. - -The <list of things to build> can include board names, architectures or the -like. There are no flags to disambiguate since ambiguities are rare. Using -the examples from MAKEALL: - -Examples:: - - - build all Power Architecture boards: - MAKEALL -a powerpc - MAKEALL --arch powerpc - MAKEALL powerpc - ** buildman -b <branch> powerpc - - build all PowerPC boards manufactured by vendor "esd": - MAKEALL -a powerpc -v esd - ** buildman -b <branch> esd - - build all PowerPC boards manufactured either by "keymile" or "siemens": - MAKEALL -a powerpc -v keymile -v siemens - ** buildman -b <branch> keymile siemens - - build all Freescale boards with MPC83xx CPUs, plus all 4xx boards: - MAKEALL -c mpc83xx -v freescale 4xx - ** buildman -b <branch> mpc83xx freescale 4xx - -Buildman automatically tries to use all the CPUs in your machine. If you -are building a lot of boards it will use one thread for every CPU core -it detects in your machine. This is like MAKEALL's BUILD_NBUILDS option. -You can use the -T flag to change the number of threads. If you are only -building a few boards, buildman will automatically run make with the -j -flag to increase the number of concurrent make tasks. It isn't normally -that helpful to fiddle with this option, but if you use the BUILD_NCPUS -option in MAKEALL then -j is the equivalent in buildman. - -Buildman puts its output in ../<branch_name> by default but you can change -this with the -o option. Buildman normally does out-of-tree builds: use -i -to disable that if you really want to. But be careful that once you have -used -i you pollute buildman's copies of the source tree, and you will need -to remove the build directory (normally ../<branch_name>) to run buildman -in normal mode (without -i). - -Buildman doesn't keep the output result normally, but use the -k option to -do this. - -Please read 'Theory of Operation' a few times as it will make a lot of -things clearer. - -Some options you might like are:: - - -B shows which functions are growing/shrinking in which commit - great - for finding code bloat. - -S shows image sizes for each commit (just an overall summary) - -u shows boards that you haven't built yet - --step 0 will build just the upstream commit and the last commit of your - branch. This is often a quick sanity check that your branch doesn't - break anything. But note this does not check bisectability! - - Using boards.cfg ----------------