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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] buildman: Make the tool friendlier for first-time users
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:27:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160708142729.GL25382@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577E9F29.20301@wwwdotorg.org>

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:27:53PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/03/2016 03:14 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >This makes a few minor improvements to buildman to make it work more easiler
> >for first-time users:
> >
> >- Improve progress and warning messages when fetching toolchains
> >- Fix a bug where toolchain paths can be overwritten when fetching
> >- Note at the top of the help how to get started
> >
> >Also this series removes MAKEALL. Since buildman has been around for 3 years
> >it may be time to do this. If not, we can leave it for now.
> 
> Sounds great:-)
> 
> BTW, one problem I've come across with buildman recently is that it
> re-orders warnings/errors from the compiler. In particular, it seems
> to separate what it thinks are warning from errors (perhaps
> stdout/stderr split??) but I'm not sure it always gets it right, and
> I think elides duplicate lines when doing so. When running buildman
> repeatedly while doing development, and experiencing a compile
> error, this makes it extremely difficult to interpret some of the
> compiler's multi-line messages. Is it possible to have an option
> that turns off all the output processing, and just shows stderr/out
> mixed up as they would appear "interactively" when manually invoked
> from a shell, with no post-processing? Occasionally I have to fall
> back to a manual "make" invocation due to this.

Yes, some way to turn off this coelescing of messages would be good or
maybe put the messages in a file (per board) in order?

-- 
Tom
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-03 21:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] buildman: Make the tool friendlier for first-time users Simon Glass
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/11] buildman: Tidy up the README a little Simon Glass
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/11] buildman: Automatically create a config file if needed Simon Glass
2016-07-07 18:15   ` Stephen Warren
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/11] buildman: Fix the 'help' test to use the correct path Simon Glass
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/11] buildman: Allow the toolchain error to be suppressed Simon Glass
2016-07-07 18:17   ` Stephen Warren
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/11] buildman: Improve the toolchain progress/error output Simon Glass
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/11] buildman: Fix a typo in TestSettingsHasPath() Simon Glass
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/11] buildman: Drop the toolchain error when downloading toolchains Simon Glass
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/11] buildman: Avoid overwriting existing toolchain entries Simon Glass
2016-07-07 18:21   ` Stephen Warren
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/11] buildman: Add a quick-start note Simon Glass
2016-07-07 18:23   ` Stephen Warren
2016-07-08 14:27     ` Tom Rini
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/11] Drop the MAKEALL tool Simon Glass
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini
2016-07-03 21:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/11] Drop references to MAKEALL in the documentation Simon Glass
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini
2016-07-07 18:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] buildman: Make the tool friendlier for first-time users Stephen Warren
2016-07-08 14:27   ` Tom Rini [this message]
2016-07-08 14:26 ` Tom Rini

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