[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 13/13] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[Simon Glass]

Hi York,

On 5 August 2014 10:43, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 07:47 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Since buildman now includes most of the features of MAKEALL it is probably
>> time to talk about deprecating MAKEALL.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>
> Simon,
>
> I know buildman has been out for a while. I just rely too much on MAKEALL
> automation and am reluctant to try buildman.
>
> Reading buildman/README, it seems buildman always builds a branch and its
> upstream commit. I am hoping you can help me to understand how to use buildman
> in my environment with gerrit and Jenkins. For every patch (internal
> development), we use gerrit to conduct review and Jenkins to test. If you are
> not familiar with either, the simplest way to understand is a script will run on
> every commit. In the script I use MAKEALL to build all concerned (hundreds)
> targets for _this_ commit. The dependency is maintained by gerrit. The result is
> fed back to gerrit to show the author (and reviewers) if a failure happens.
>
> If using buildman and the upstream commit is always built, a great amount of
> time will be consumed with no benefit. If you see a better way to use buildman,
> I can give it a try.

With the v3 or v4 series you can omit the -b option and it will build
the currently checked-out commit for the selected boards. It might be
useful in that the problems are stored in files as well as displayed
on the command line.

So perhaps you could try that?

BTW where does this information get published?

Regards,
Simon