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Stefan Reinauer3a140572006-10-25 19:02:34 +00001.TH ABUILD 1 "October 24, 2006"
Stefan Reinauer0bece042006-09-21 13:09:22 +00002.SH NAME
3abuild \- build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B abuild
6\fR[\fB\-abxVh\fR] [\fB\-t\fR vendor/board] [\fB\-p\fR dir]
7[LBROOT]
8.SH DESCRIPTION
9.B abuild
10is a utility used to easily build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets.
11.SH OPTIONS
12The
13.B "[LBROOT]"
14parameter tells
15.B abuild
16where the root directory of the LinuxBIOS build tree resides. Per default
17this is
18.B "../.."
19as the
20.B abuild
21script resides in
22.BR "[LBROOT]/utils/abuild" .
23.TP
24.B "\-a, \-\-all"
25Build previously succeeded ports as well.
26.TP
27.B "\-b, \-\-broken"
28Attempt to build ports that are known to be broken.
29.TP
30.B "\-p, \-\-payloads <dir>"
31Use payloads in
32.B "<dir>"
Stefan Reinauer73368152006-10-25 19:08:12 +000033to build images. This will run payload.sh in that directory to find out the
34path of the payload
Stefan Reinauer0bece042006-09-21 13:09:22 +000035.TP
36.B "\-t, \-\-target <vendor/board>"
37Attempt to build target vendor/board only.
38.TP
39.B "\-x, \-\-xml"
40Write an XML log file instead of a plain-text one.
41The file will be called
42.B abuild.xml
43and will be created in the current directory.
44.TP
Stefan Reinauer3a140572006-10-25 19:02:34 +000045.B "\-T, \-\-test"
46Submit generated image(s) to the automated test system.
47The results of the tests will be made available at
48.B http://qa.linuxbios.org/log_manual.php
49.TP
Stefan Reinauer0bece042006-09-21 13:09:22 +000050.B "\-v, \-\-verbose"
51More verbose output.
52.TP
53.B "\-h, \-\-help"
54Show a help text and exit.
55.TP
56.B "\-V, \-\-version"
57Show version information and exit.
58.SH BUGS
59Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
60.SH LICENCE
61.B abuild
62is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
63.SH SEE ALSO
64.BR romcc (1),
65.BR flashrom (1).
66.SH COPYRIGHT
672004 Stefan Reinauer
68.br
692006 coresystems GmbH
70.SH AUTHORS
Stefan Reinauer3a140572006-10-25 19:02:34 +000071Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
Stefan Reinauer0bece042006-09-21 13:09:22 +000072.PP
73This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
74It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).