From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Behme Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:03:09 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Broken (ARM) build, was: u-boot patch submission process In-Reply-To: <20080211092625.4d09fe0b@siona> References: <000201c85ea6$cf35c9d0$9a4d010a@Emea.Arm.com> <2acbd3e40801240850k6d7a5714n61479666d7cf9afe@mail.gmail.com> <20080124110130.ff642252.kim.phillips@freescale.com> <20080208224807.GA15511@michl.2n.cz> <20080209004352.GA24341@michl.2n.cz> <1202690315.7947.406.camel@sax-lx.fischerfamily.org> <47AFD266.2060507@googlemail.com> <20080211092625.4d09fe0b@siona> Message-ID: <47B063AD.90808@googlemail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:43:18 +0100 > Dirk Behme wrote: > > >>[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] [DRIVERS] is onlyavailable >>for ppc boards. >> >>I'm assuming this will eventually be properly patched in the main tree >>- meanwhile anyone building ARM code can apply this patch >>-- cut -- >> >>This is quite annoying, particularly if you should test patches >>already in that tree or against that. IMHO the arm.git should contain >>the fix temporarily to be able to build cleanly instead of staying >>with a broken tree. > > > You're damn right it's annoying, but applying the fix to every single > arch tree just isn't the right solution. That will cause mayhem when it > turns out that every arch maintainer picked up a different fix among > the 6 or so that were posted. > > But if Wolfgang doesn't wake up and apply a fix pretty soon, I guess > that might be exactly what's going to happen. > > >>To workaround I would propose that you test MAKEALL against mainline >>U-Boot git. > > Won't help since it's mainline that is broken. Uups, yes. Last time I tried mainline it worked, so I thought only arm.git has this issue. But testing arm.git and mainline git from today, yes, *both* stop with mpc8xxx_spi.c:26:29: error: asm/mpc8xxx_spi.h: No such file or directory At least for (ARM based) davinci_dvevm_config I tried. Sorry for the confusion. > And it's not only ARM -- > every single architecture except PPC has been broken for several weeks. Seems that we should asap have a fix for this. Dirk > The first fix was posted less than three hours after the breakage was > introduced, but no fix has yet been merged. > > I'm starting to get seriously pissed off about this whole situation and > how it's been handled. Wolfgang, you can't with a straight face demand > that people always run the latest git snapshot WHEN IT DOESN'T EVEN > BUILD AND HAS BEEN THAT WAY FOR SEVERAL WEEKS! > > Haavard >