[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 20/20] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> Hi York (and Tom),
> 
> On 11 August 2014 12:23, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com> wrote:
> > On 08/09/2014 02:33 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >> Since buildman now includes most of the features of MAKEALL it is probably
> >> time to talk about deprecating MAKEALL.
> >>
> >> Comments welcome.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes in v6: None
> >> Changes in v5: None
> >> Changes in v4: None
> >> Changes in v3: None
> >> Changes in v2:
> >> - Add new patch to fix existing typos
> >>
> >>  MAKEALL | 4 ++++
> >>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAKEALL b/MAKEALL
> >> index 929fe88..dbbf74b 100755
> >> --- a/MAKEALL
> >> +++ b/MAKEALL
> >> @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ usage()
> >>       exit ${ret}
> >>  }
> >>
> >> +echo "** Note: MAKEALL is deprecated - please use buildman instead"
> >> +echo "** See tools/buildman/README for details"
> >> +echo
> >> +
> >>  SHORT_OPTS="ha:c:v:s:b:lmMCnr"
> >>  LONG_OPTS="help,arch:,cpu:,vendor:,soc:,board:,list,maintainers,mails,check,continue,rebuild-errors"
> >>
> >>
> > Simon,
> >
> > This doesn't stop this patch. Just a suggestion.
> >
> > It may be helpful to print this message at the end of output of MAKEALL. I check
> > the summary at the end of run carefully, but not paying too much attention at
> > the beginning. Beside, if I have a lot of output I may miss the beginning.
> >
> > Another suggestion for future patch is to use return value for buildman. For
> > now, I have to check if err files are created during building.
> 
> OK I'll take a look at these.
> 
> Tom, what do you think about me sending a pull request for the initial
> buildman patches just to get them out of the way? It seems that we
> might end up tweaking things a bit more and the original patches
> probably won't change:
> 
> 74aef4b buildman: Allow selection of the number of commits to build
> 75c313d buildman: Introduce an 'and' operator for board selection
> e9f8dc3 buildman: Add a few more toolchain examples to the README
> 09ec73d buildman: Add a message indicating there are no errors
> b6817f5 buildman: Add an option to specify the buildman config file
> e752166 buildman: Remove unused non-incremental build method code
> 07f44ff buildman: Add verbose option to display errors as they happen
> 1d4e7a2 buildman: Refactor output options
> e6eeadc buildman: Sort command line options
> 90d17a6 buildman: Move BuilderThread code to its own file
> 285691e buildman: Allow building of current source tree
> 6ed14ca buildman: Add some notes about moving from MAKEALL
> ddb01e7 buildman: Fix a few typos

I'm fine with taking everything but the final part of the series (20/20,
RFC on removing MAKEALL).  It'll make further testing of buildman easier
too :)

-- 
Tom
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