From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 22:20:25 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] utils/genrandconfig: check core-dependencies In-Reply-To: <20180206214059.9272-1-arnout@mind.be> References: <20180206214059.9272-1-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <20180208222025.278396e0@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:40:59 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote: > When generating a random configuration, also check the host > dependencies for that configuration and error out if it fails. > > This is mainly intended for the autobuilders, so they don't try to > build a configuration for which the necessary host packages are not > installed. > > Instead of erroring out, we could also generate a different random > config. However: > > - When called for the autobuilders, the autobuild-run script will > anyway just attempt another build. The only difference is that a > warning will be printed in this autobuild log now. This warning > is in fact quite useful to hint that the autobuilder could benefit > from intalling this additional host package. > > - When called manually, the user may in fact want to install the > missing host package and continue with the saved random config. > > Fixes: > > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/d7c/d7c12e873a71fef1e0b5e19cfad45024050614e1 > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/a0a/a0a105c1ec2d0517112b02932a85831d4b597b9f > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/96c/96cc6cedc64c777e993671204809599a1498472a > > and many others... > > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) > --- > utils/genrandconfig | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to master, thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com