[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] buildman: Make the tool friendlier for first-time users

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:27:53PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/03/2016 03:14 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >This makes a few minor improvements to buildman to make it work more easiler
> >for first-time users:
> >
> >- Improve progress and warning messages when fetching toolchains
> >- Fix a bug where toolchain paths can be overwritten when fetching
> >- Note at the top of the help how to get started
> >
> >Also this series removes MAKEALL. Since buildman has been around for 3 years
> >it may be time to do this. If not, we can leave it for now.
> 
> Sounds great:-)
> 
> BTW, one problem I've come across with buildman recently is that it
> re-orders warnings/errors from the compiler. In particular, it seems
> to separate what it thinks are warning from errors (perhaps
> stdout/stderr split??) but I'm not sure it always gets it right, and
> I think elides duplicate lines when doing so. When running buildman
> repeatedly while doing development, and experiencing a compile
> error, this makes it extremely difficult to interpret some of the
> compiler's multi-line messages. Is it possible to have an option
> that turns off all the output processing, and just shows stderr/out
> mixed up as they would appear "interactively" when manually invoked
> from a shell, with no post-processing? Occasionally I have to fall
> back to a manual "make" invocation due to this.

Yes, some way to turn off this coelescing of messages would be good or
maybe put the messages in a file (per board) in order?

-- 
Tom
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