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
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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
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,
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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