On 10/22/2014 08:11 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,
On 22 October 2014 02:33, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Tom,
In message 20141014081724.GF25506@bill-the-cat you wrote:
No, not yet. I am going to mention in the release notes that we're going to strongly start thinking about deleting MAKEALL. We can pick up the deprecation patch early in the next merge window.
Can we please keep at least some script (as a wrapper around buildman?) that keeps the old user interface in place?
I frequently use "git bisect run MAKEALL <board> ...", and it would be nice if we could keep this working even in newer versions of the code.
Or is there a similar alternative command that works with identical parameters for - say - all versions of the last two years or so?
Unfortunately there is not really an equivalent, and buildman only recently
- sets its return code correctly
- supports building the current tree (previously it required a branch
name for the commit to build)
During development of buildman/patman I used to keep a separate tree. Then you can run the latest buildman from that tree using you current directory for the bisect.
I could perhaps look at adjusting MAKEALL to call buildman if that solution isn't good enough (this will work assuming that buildman has been set up with toolchains, etc.). Still I think a deprecation warning is a good start.
Simon,
While you work on buildman, please consider to regenerate boards.cfg for each build. If one patch in a series adds a board, there will be a false error for patches before it.
York