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[4/4] toolchain/wrapper: add option to print one argument per line

Message ID e1d03e22b10b073d5906a4b6df22c72d38bfd8c2.1378330371.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr
State Changes Requested
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Yann E. MORIN Sept. 4, 2013, 9:35 p.m. UTC
From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

In case there are many arguments passed to the tools, the command line
can get very long, and difficult to parse visually.

For example, the Linux kernel passes a lot of arguments to gcc (at least
45, which gives 53 with our hard-coded args). Looking at such a command
line is daunting.

So, add the possibility to print each argument on its own line.

Also, enclose all args between single quotes, so the command line
can be safely copy-pasted without special chars (spaces, $) being
inrerpreted by the shell.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
---
 .../toolchain-external/ext-toolchain-wrapper.c     | 25 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Comments

Luca Ceresoli Sept. 5, 2013, 12:48 p.m. UTC | #1
Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>
> In case there are many arguments passed to the tools, the command line
> can get very long, and difficult to parse visually.
>
> For example, the Linux kernel passes a lot of arguments to gcc (at least
> 45, which gives 53 with our hard-coded args). Looking at such a command
> line is daunting.
>
> So, add the possibility to print each argument on its own line.
>
> Also, enclose all args between single quotes, so the command line
> can be safely copy-pasted without special chars (spaces, $) being
> inrerpreted by the shell.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

This feature should be mentioned in the docs.

Apart for that:

Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
[Tested on arm_foundationv8_defconfig]

Luca
Yann E. MORIN Sept. 5, 2013, 1:55 p.m. UTC | #2
Luca, All,

On 2013-09-05 14:48 +0200, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly:
> Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> >
> >In case there are many arguments passed to the tools, the command line
> >can get very long, and difficult to parse visually.
> >
> >For example, the Linux kernel passes a lot of arguments to gcc (at least
> >45, which gives 53 with our hard-coded args). Looking at such a command
> >line is daunting.
> >
> >So, add the possibility to print each argument on its own line.
> >
> >Also, enclose all args between single quotes, so the command line
> >can be safely copy-pasted without special chars (spaces, $) being
> >inrerpreted by the shell.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> 
> This feature should be mentioned in the docs.

Well, for now, BR_DEBUG_WRAPPER is not even documented.
But I agree this is missing; will add.

> Apart for that:
> 
> Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> [Tested on arm_foundationv8_defconfig]

I'll add those when I respin the patch. Thank you! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Patch

diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-toolchain-wrapper.c b/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-toolchain-wrapper.c
index 565e36b..dfdfcff 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-toolchain-wrapper.c
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-toolchain-wrapper.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	char *relbasedir, *absbasedir;
 	char *progpath = argv[0];
 	char *basename;
-	int ret, i, count = 0;
+	char *env_debug;
+	int ret, i, count = 0, debug;
 
 	/* Calculate the relative paths */
 	basename = strrchr(progpath, '/');
@@ -157,13 +158,21 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* finish with NULL termination */
 	*cur = NULL;
 
-	if (getenv("BR_DEBUG_WRAPPER")) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Executing");
-
-		for (i = 0; args[i]; i++)
-			fprintf(stderr, " %s", args[i]);
-
-		fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+	/* Debug the wrapper to see actual arguments passed to
+	 * the compiler:
+	 * unset, empty, or 0: do not trace
+	 * set to 1          : trace all arguments on a single line
+	 * set to 2          : trace one argument per line
+	 */
+	if ((env_debug = getenv("BR_DEBUG_WRAPPER"))) {
+		debug = atoi(env_debug);
+		if (debug > 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Toolchain wrapper executing:");
+			for (i = 0; args[i]; i++)
+				fprintf(stderr, "%s'%s'",
+					(debug == 2)?"\n    ":" ", args[i]);
+			fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (execv(path, args))