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

[York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>]

On 10/22/2014 08:11 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On 22 October 2014 02:33, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>> Dear Tom,
>>
>> In message <20141014081724.GF25506@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.
> 

Simon,

While you work on buildman, please consider to regenerate boards.cfg for each
build. If one patch in a series adds a board, there will be a false error for
patches before it.

York