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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-10-16 01:05:56 -0600
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-11-26 20:25:40 -0700
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buildman: Don't default to -e when building current source
We probably don't need to enable this option by default. It is useful to display only failure boards (not errors) and it is easy to add -e if it is required. Also update the docs. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reported-by: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
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@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ branch. Put all your commits in a branch, set the branch's upstream to a
valid value, and all will be well. Otherwise buildman will perform random
actions. Use -n to check what the random actions might be.
-If you just want to build the current source tree, leave off the -b flag.
-This will display results and errors as they happen. You can still look
-at them later using -s. Note that buildman will assume that the source
-has changed, and will build all specified boards in this case.
+If you just want to build the current source tree, leave off the -b flag
+and add -e. This will display results and errors as they happen. You can
+still look at them later using -se. Note that buildman will assume that the
+source has changed, and will build all specified boards in this case.
Buildman is optimised for building many commits at once, for many boards.
On multi-core machines, Buildman is fast because it uses most of the
@@ -693,9 +693,9 @@ Quick Sanity Check
==================
If you have made changes and want to do a quick sanity check of the
-currently-checked-out source, run buildman without the -b flag. This will
-build the selected boards and display build status and errors as it runs
-(i.e. -v amd -e are enabled automatically).
+currently checked-out source, run buildman without the -b flag. This will
+build the selected boards and display build status as it runs (i.e. -v is
+enabled automatically). Use -e to see errors/warnings as well.
Other options
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ an error and green indicating that a commit fixed an error. Use the -e
flag to see the full errors and -l to see which boards caused which errors.
If you really want to see build results as they happen, use -v when doing a
-build (-e will be enabled automatically).
+build (and -e to see the errors/warnings too).
You don't need to stick around on that branch while buildman is running. It
checks out its own copy of the source code, so you can change branches,
@@ -816,11 +816,10 @@ TODO
This has mostly be written in my spare time as a response to my difficulties
in testing large series of patches. Apart from tidying up there is quite a
-bit of scope for improvement. Things like better error diffs, easier access
-to log files, error display while building. Also it would be nice it buildman
-could 'hunt' for problems, perhaps by building a few boards for each arch,
-or checking commits for changed files and building only boards which use
-those files.
+bit of scope for improvement. Things like better error diffs and easier
+access to log files. Also it would be nice it buildman could 'hunt' for
+problems, perhaps by building a few boards for each arch, or checking
+commits for changed files and building only boards which use those files.
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