[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 5/5] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On 15 August 2014 10:20, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/15/2014 10:13 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 15 August 2014 09:46, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/14/2014 05:35 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since buildman now includes most of the features of MAKEALL it is
>>>> probably
>>>> time to talk about deprecating MAKEALL.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess I don't care too much, but I would like to point out that when I
>>> mentioned the annoyance of having to change my scripts:
>>>
>>> from:
>>> make ARCH=arm jetson_tk1_config
>>>
>>> to:
>>> make ARCH=arm jetson_tk1_defconfig
>>>
>>> ... together with having to detect which version to use since different
>>> U-Boot commits required a difference command,  one of the answers was that
>>> "MAKEALL jetson_tk1" still worked the same on both old and new git commits,
>>> and could be used as a replacement. This patch would invalidate that.
>>
>>
>> Well I suppose you could use:
>>
>>     ./tools/buildman/buildman jetson_tk1
>>
>> to get the same effect.
>
>
> True, although that command has been available for a much shorter time than
> MAKEALL...
>
> Replacing the MAKEALL script body with a call to buildman might solve that?
> I'm not sure that buildman puts the build results in the same place.
>

No, you would need -o if you want them to go to a particular place.

> But like I said, I'm not too worried about this personally, so there's
> probably no need to change anything.

OK I still have a few things left to improve, but we are getting there,

Regards,
Simon