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Arnout Vandecappelle d7b05d5b7d genrandconfig: verbose output and use stderr
The output of genrandconfig is currently very terse, which is annoying
for debugging the script or generally seeing what is going on. Also the
timing information added by log_write isn't very useful when the script
is used stand-alone.

In the new setup, (verbose) output goes to stdout and error output goes
to stderr. Also the "INFO: generate the configuration" message is
eliminated - it should go in the autobuild-run script.

We also add an explicit message when a toolchain can't be used after
the first defconfig, otherwise autobuild-run will just silently
restart.

Note that, since the output of make is no longer redirected to
/dev/null, we get one more message on stderr that will be recorded in
the autobuilder's log file: KCONFIG_SEED=0xXXXXXXXX.

This approach allows us to optimise the error handling to use
exceptions, where appropriate, which can be caught at the top level and
converted to an error message to stderr. This, in turn, allows us to use
subprocess.check_call, which eliminates a lot of conditions.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-25 22:43:30 +02:00
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This directory contains various useful scripts and tools for working
with Buildroot. You need not add this directory in your PATH to use
any of those tools, but you may do so if you want.

brmake
    a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
    front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
    ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just outputs the Buildroot
    messages (those lines starting with >>>) on stdout.
    Do not run this script for interactive configuration (e.g. menuconfig)
    or on an unconfigured directory. The output is redirected so you will see
    nothing.

check-package
    a script that checks the coding style of a package's Config.in and
    .mk files, and also tests them for various types of typoes.

get-developpers
    a script to return the list of people interested in a specific part
    of Buildroot, so they can be Cc:ed on a mail. Accepts a patch as
    input, a package name or and architecture name.

scancpan
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a CPAN module
    description.

scanpypi
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a PyPI package
    description.

size-stats-compare
    a script to compare the rootfs size between two different Buildroot
    configurations. This can be used to identify the size impact of
    a specific option, of a set of specific options, or of an update
    to a newer Buildroot version...

test-pkg
    a script that tests a specific package against a set of various
    toolchains, with the goal to detect toolchain-related dependencies
    (wchar, threads...)