[U-Boot] [PATCH v9 0/14] Add some missing buildman features and deprecate MAKEALL

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Aug 25 21:00:05 CEST 2014


Hi Tom,

On 25 August 2014 12:54, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:58:21AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>> Buildman has been around for a little over a year and is used by a fair
>> number of U-Boot developers. However quite a few people still use MAKEALL.
>>
>> Buildman was intended to replace MAKEALL, so perhaps now is a good time to
>> start that process.
>>
>> The reasons to deprecate MAKEALL are:
>> - We don't want to maintain two build systems
>> - Buildman is typically faster
>> - Buildman has a lot more features
>>
>> This series adds a few features to buildman to fill some gaps, adds some
>> information into the README on how to migrate from MAKEALL, and adds a
>> deprecation message to MAKEALL.
>
> I'm testing this out again in the Ubuntu 10.04 / LSF environment I have
> access to but so far I'm still finding that test for --no-decorate isn't
> working and I have to manually set it to False.

Oh dear. I wrote a test for this in the second series. So if you apply
that series, do the tests pass? It is in func_test.py and is called
testGitSetup().

Regards,
Simon


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