[U-Boot] simple buildman usage

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On 14 July 2015 at 17:27, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 05:07 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 14 July 2015 at 16:39, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/14/2015 04:09 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 02:11:25PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/14/2015 11:56 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've pushed v2015.07 out to the repository and tarballs should exist
>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This sounds a bit like a broken record, but it's true.  The Kconfig
>>>>>> migration and DM work continue moving along.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking over the announcement for v2015.04, I see I said we'd
>>>>>> deprecate
>>>>>> MAKEALL.  So I've applied http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/383960/
>>>>>> right after the tag.  If buildman isn't working for you and your use
>>>>>> case, we really need to talk.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The nice thing about MAKEALL was that I could simply grab a source
>>>>> tree, and run the following to build in-tree:
>>>>>
>>>>> CROSS_COMPILE=something ./MAKEALL foo
>>>>>
>>>>> However, with buildman, some complex config file needed to be set up
>>>>> to configure the toolchain (and I could never parse the docs to work
>>>>> out how to create it in a new checkout), plus it made copies of the
>>>>> source tree which takes ages for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there an equivalently simple way to invoke buildman that doesn't
>>>>> require configuration and copying?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For no copying, --in-tree does what you want I think.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK. Making that the default would be useful, or providing a buildman
>>> wrapper script in the root directory that always passes this option.
>>
>>
>> $ buildman seaboard
>>
>> will build U-Boot for seaboard. It does not copy the git tree. It puts
>> the output in ../current, or some other directory of your choosing. I
>> think that's pretty convenient.
>
>
> I'd prefer it to go in . so I don't get clutter outside my working tree.

-o .

>
>> For toolchains you can use
>>
>> $ buildman --fetch-arch arm
>>
>> to get a default one and set it up ready for use complete with config
>> file.
>
>
> I already have the toolchain I want to use installed, so I'd like a simple
> way to use it.
>
>> But honestly the config file is not that hard to figure out!
>
>
> Well perhaps if you understand its concepts/semantics, but I've always had
> an extremely hard time grasping it, and at least the last time I RTFMd there
> weren't any examples aimed at "this is how to write a config file to just
> use this binary name in $PATH". Equally, having to edit a config file any
> time I want to switch compilers is a bit annoying.

Agreed. Perhaps annoying enough to contribute a patch?

Regards,
Simon