From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/3] docs/manual: update the documentation about test-pkg
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:48:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180323214815.19831-4-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180323214815.19831-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
---
docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
index 19577fa821..f37f9874e7 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
@@ -77,9 +77,14 @@ and what package to test:
$ ./utils/test-pkg -c libcurl.config -p libcurl
----
-This will try to build your package against all the toolchains used
-by the autobuilders (except for the internal toolchains, because it takes
-too long to do so). The output lists all toolchains and the corresponding
+By default, +test-pkg+ will build your package against a subset of the
+toolchains used by the autobuilders, which has been selected by the
+Buildroot developers as being the most useful and representative
+subset. If you want to test all toolchains, pass the +-a+ option. Note
+that in any case, internal toolchains are excluded as they take too
+long to build.
+
+The output lists all toolchains that are tested and the corresponding
result (excerpt, results are fake):
----
--
2.14.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 21:48 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/3] test-pkg: by default only test a subset of toolchains Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-23 21:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] toolchain-configs.csv: re-organize for test-pkg Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-24 15:48 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-04-01 14:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-23 21:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/3] test-pkg: test a subset of toolchains by default, add -a and -n options Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-24 2:39 ` Matthew Weber
2018-03-25 8:50 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-03-25 19:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-25 19:35 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-03-23 21:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-03-25 8:12 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/3] docs/manual: update the documentation about test-pkg Yann E. MORIN
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