Buildman is a builder. It is not make, although it runs make. It does not
produce any useful output on the terminal while building, except for
progress information (except with -v, see below). All the output (errors,
-warnings and binaries if you are ask for them) is stored in output
+warnings and binaries if you ask for them) is stored in output
directories, which you can look at while the build is progressing, or when
it is finished.
means to build all arm boards except nvidia, freescale and anything ending
with 'ball'.
-It is convenient to use the -n option to see whaat will be built based on
+It is convenient to use the -n option to see what will be built based on
the subset given.
Buildman does not store intermediate object files. It optionally copies
To find out how the build went, ask for a summary with -s. You can do this
-either before the build completes (presumably in another terminal) or or
+either before the build completes (presumably in another terminal) or
afterwards. Let's work through an example of how this is used:
$ ./tools/buildman/buildman -b lcd9b -s
At commit 16, the error moves - you can see that the old error at line 120
is fixed, but there is a new one at line 126. This is probably only because
-we added some code and moved the broken line father down the file.
+we added some code and moved the broken line further down the file.
If many boards have the same error, then -e will display the error only
once. This makes the output as concise as possible. To see which boards have
board was built) and by 96 bytes for powerpc. This increase was offset in both
cases by reductions in rodata and data/bss.
-Shown below the summary lines is the sizes for each board. Below each board
-is the sizes for each function. This information starts with:
+Shown below the summary lines are the sizes for each board. Below each board
+are the sizes for each function. This information starts with:
add - number of functions added / removed
grow - number of functions which grew / shrunk
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 and easier
-access to log files. Also it would be nice it buildman could 'hunt' for
+access to log files. Also it would be nice if 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.