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diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README index 8ba19ec..bfb2f18 100644 --- a/tools/buildman/README +++ b/tools/buildman/README @@ -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. Credits |