From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.com, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:06:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009160645.GA4304@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009030729.GI12499@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:07:29PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:33:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Question: I'm building a kernel for the 8610. Why is treeboot-walnut.c
> > being compiled at all?
>
> Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can
> be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific
> obscure platform.
Of course, it also introduces bugs that wouldn't have been an issue if we
didn't try to build everything with the same toolchain. :-P
I'm also somewhat worried what it'll do to build time as platforms
accumulate.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 22:46 Build failure on treeboot-walnut.c Grant Likely
2007-09-26 0:15 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-08 21:33 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 3:07 ` Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg David Gibson
2007-10-09 16:06 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 18:52 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-09 19:14 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-10 2:35 ` David Gibson
2007-10-11 0:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-11 20:02 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-09 16:06 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-10-10 2:35 ` David Gibson
2007-10-09 4:00 ` Build failure on treeboot-walnut.c Grant Likely
2007-10-09 13:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-09 14:44 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 14:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09 14:51 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-09 14:54 ` Timur Tabi
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