Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Oct 10 02:06:45 EST 2007
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:07:29PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:33:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Question: I'm building a kernel for the 8610. Why is treeboot-walnut.c
> > being compiled at all?
>
> Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can
> be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific
> obscure platform.
Of course, it also introduces bugs that wouldn't have been an issue if we
didn't try to build everything with the same toolchain. :-P
I'm also somewhat worried what it'll do to build time as platforms
accumulate.
-Scott
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