On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:34:38AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:27:29 -0600 Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi,
On 18 August 2014 10:20, Stephen Warren swarren@wwwdotorg.org wrote:
On 08/16/2014 10:56 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
Commit 51148790 added scripts/multiconfig.py written in Python 2 to adjust Kconfig for U-Boot.
It has been hard for Python 3 users because Python 2 and Python 3 are not compatible with each other.
We are not happy about adding a new host tool dependency (in this case, Python version dependency) for the core build process. After some discussion, we decided to use only basic tools.
The script may get a bit unreadable by shell scripting, but we believe it is worthwhile.
In addition, this commit revives "<board>_config" target that is equivalent to "<board>_defconfig" for backwards compatibility. It is annoying to adjust various projects which use U-Boot.
Personally, I think this change isn't justified; I see no reason to replace the perfectly working existing script. Still, if that's what's desired...
In that case, I wanted you to stop me earlier. I wrote this patch during my summer vacation. :-(
Thank you for doing it on your vacation! Yes, I'm _not_ comfortable making python a requirement for _everyone_ to build U-Boot. I'm willing to consider replacing MAKEALL with buildman since that's a more U-Boot developer tool. But for the average user we're making things more complicated than we must just so they can use our software.