[U-Boot] [PATCH v10 14/14] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On 22 October 2014 02:33, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> In message <20141014081724.GF25506 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>>
>> No, not yet.  I am going to mention in the release notes that we're
>> going to strongly start thinking about deleting MAKEALL.  We can pick up
>> the deprecation patch early in the next merge window.
>
> Can we please keep at least some script (as a wrapper around
> buildman?) that keeps the old user interface in place?
>
> I frequently use "git bisect run MAKEALL <board> ...", and it would
> be nice if we could keep this working even in newer versions of the
> code.
>
> Or is there a similar alternative command that works with identical
> parameters for - say - all versions of the last two years or so?

Unfortunately there is not really an equivalent, and buildman only recently

- sets its return code correctly
- supports building the current tree (previously it required a branch
name for the commit to build)

During development of buildman/patman I used to keep a separate tree.
Then you can run the latest buildman from that tree using you current
directory for the bisect.

I could perhaps look at adjusting MAKEALL to call buildman if that
solution isn't good enough (this will work assuming that buildman has
been set up with toolchains, etc.). Still I think a deprecation
warning is a good start.

Regards,
Simon