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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:23:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r217733 - in head: . share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <4D3D1AC6.7030003@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110123104812.A3489@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <201101222257.p0MMvSZY007310@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTimmiLVVQ3y3-tbWG41UDaqQpE51BapKuDdxZP0O@mail.gmail.com> <20110123104812.A3489@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>

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On 01/23/2011 03:51, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Author: bz
>>> Date: Sat Jan 22 22:57:28 2011
>>> New Revision: 217733
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217733
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>  Properly document what the top-level `make tinderbox` does.
>>>
>>>  Reviewed by:  jmallett
>>>  MFC After:    3 days
>>>  X-MFC:                build.7 only
>>
>>    As much as I like make universe and tinderbox, for the purpose of
>> development testing would it make sense if there was a tinderbox
>> target that actually died on its first failure? tinderbox and universe
>
> I think not really; if you want to catch errors, you want all of them
> and not just the first broken kernel if there are 12.
>
>> seems to be useful when dealing with known breakage or when executing
>> periodic builds, but I don't know think it's as effective with
>> development testing, as for some of the stuff I just want to build on
>> something other than my host arch and another arch that isn't x86 (say
>> arm, mips, powerpc) just to make sure that I didn't break anything
>> endian wise (if the code is that nasty).
>
>     make universe TARGETS=arm
> or
>     make universe TARGETS="i386 amd64 sparc64 ia64"
>
> works perfectly well (again).  Even
>
>     make universe TARGETS=mips TARGET_ARCH=mips64eb KERNCONFS=XLR64
>
> should be perfectly fine.

Except, it isn't fine.  That's a horrible interface.  It doesn't work if 
TARGETS="i386 mips".

Warner



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