Buildman build tool
Buildman builds U-Boot, for many boards and many commits at once, to check that a patch series has not broken anything. It:
builds each commit of a branch for any set of boards, in parallel, making full use of multi-processor machines;
summarises the results, so that new errors, warnings or image-size changes can be pinned to the commit and board which caused them;
fetches the cross-compilers it needs and works out which to use for each board;
can share builds across several machines over SSH;
adjusts board configurations on the fly for build experiments.
Installation
Install the latest release from PyPI:
pip install buildman
The buildman command is then on your path.
Quick start
From a U-Boot source tree, fetch a toolchain and build a board:
buildman --fetch-arch arm buildman -k rpi_2 ls ../current/rpi_2
Build every commit of the current branch for all ARM boards, then show a summary of the results:
buildman -b <branch> arm buildman -b <branch> -s arm
See buildman -H for the complete manual, or the documentation linked below.
Documentation
Full documentation is hosted on Read the Docs:
Development
Run the test suite from a checkout:
pip install -r requirements.txt pip install -e .[test] buildman -t
A few tests run U-Boot’s real Kconfig tools. Set UBOOT_SRC to a U-Boot source tree to include them; otherwise they are skipped. buildman --coverage checks that the tests cover all of the code.
The u_boot_pylib library, the parts of patman which buildman uses and U-Boot’s qconfig tool are vendored from the U-Boot tree, so no surrounding U-Boot source is needed to run the tests.
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