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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 12 August 2014 15:05, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

Are you sure? That includes the 'colour' patch at present...

Regards,
Simon