From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:04:22 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] A little summer game ? :-) In-Reply-To: <20120803103052.5ec63fb7@skate> References: <1343962432-2772-1-git-send-email-danomimanchego123@gmail.com> <20120803103052.5ec63fb7@skate> Message-ID: <501B9416.3090700@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:53:47 -0400, > Danomi Manchego a ?crit : > >> Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego > > Thanks for all the license information patches. > > However, those patches are too easy, so let's make a little summer > game :-) > > I will merge 3 "license information" patches from someone for each > patch that this developer sends to fix a build issue reported by the > autobuilders. This way, I'm pretty sure we'll manage to reduce the > number of build issues! This offer is obviously valid for all > contributors. > > Ready to play the game ? :-) > > Thomas Wheee, what a fun, Thomas! Call it "Buildroot Summer Of Bugfix" and people will flock in! :-D Seriously, I admit I'm not investing a lot of time in fixing build errors. This is in part due to the limited time available, but another important blocking factor is that many build errors happen with external, custom toolchains that are installed on your build server. I almost daily skim through the build failures and take a look at those about by packages and/or architectures I use and somehow know. These are already a small subset of all the possibilities. But often I discover these happen with toolchains (and probably architectures) I don't have an easy access to, so I just go along. It would help if the external toolchains used for the builds were always available within Buildroot, so we could just apply the [def]config, run make, have an icy drink while it downloads and fails building and then, happily refreshed, hunt for the bug. I'm not saying this would be easy to do, but it would be helpful to me. Luca