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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2016-03-12 18:50:33 -0700
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2016-03-17 21:27:39 -0600
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buildman: Clarify the use of -V
This option outputs to the log file, not to the terminal. Clarify that in the help, and add a mention of it in the README. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/buildman/README3
-rw-r--r--tools/buildman/cmdline.py2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README
index 332fd5c..4705d26 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/README
+++ b/tools/buildman/README
@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ The full build output in this case is available in:
err: Output from stderr, if any. Errors and warnings appear here.
log: Output from stdout. Normally there isn't any since buildman runs
- in silent mode for now.
+ in silent mode. Use -V to force a verbose build (this passes V=1
+ to 'make')
toolchain: Shows information about the toolchain used for the build.
diff --git a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
index 916ea57..8341ab1 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def ParseArgs():
parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true',
default=False, help='Show build results while the build progresses')
parser.add_option('-V', '--verbose-build', action='store_true',
- default=False, help='Run make with V=1, showing all output')
+ default=False, help='Run make with V=1, logging all output')
parser.add_option('-x', '--exclude', dest='exclude',
type='string', action='append',
help='Specify a list of boards to exclude, separated by comma')