buildman: Provide an argument to the -R option

Allow writing the file to a selected location, since otherwise this is
controlled by the buildman configuration, so cannot be determined by the
caller.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Fixes: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/issues/17

4 files changed, 26 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/buildman/buildman.rst b/tools/buildman/buildman.rst
index ebc552fae3..a94957ba31 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/buildman.rst
+++ b/tools/buildman/buildman.rst
@@ -1303,9 +1303,10 @@ Using boards.cfg
 
 This file is no-longer needed by buildman but it is still generated in the
 working directory. This helps avoid a delay on every build, since scanning all
-the Kconfig files takes a few seconds. Use the -R flag to force regeneration
-of the file - in that case buildman exits after writing the file. with exit code
-2 if there was an error in the maintainer files.
+the Kconfig files takes a few seconds. Use the `-R <filename>` flag to force
+regeneration of the file - in that case buildman exits after writing the file
+with exit code 2 if there was an error in the maintainer files. To use the
+default filename, use a hyphen, i.e. `-R -`.
 
 You should use 'buildman -nv <criteria>' instead of greoing the boards.cfg file,
 since it may be dropped altogether in future.
diff --git a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
index 36acac5ee5..7918195bcb 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def ParseArgs():
           default=False, help="Use an O= (output) directory per board rather than per thread")
     parser.add_option('-r', '--reproducible-builds', action='store_true',
           help='Set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 to suuport a reproducible build')
-    parser.add_option('-R', '--regen-board-list', action='store_true',
+    parser.add_option('-R', '--regen-board-list', type='string',
           help='Force regeneration of the list of boards, like the old boards.cfg file')
     parser.add_option('-s', '--summary', action='store_true',
           default=False, help='Show a build summary')
diff --git a/tools/buildman/control.py b/tools/buildman/control.py
index fc9e926d3a..89010eac3a 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/control.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/control.py
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ def DoBuildman(options, args, toolchains=None, make_func=None, brds=None,
         if not os.path.exists(options.output_dir):
             os.makedirs(options.output_dir)
         board_file = os.path.join(options.output_dir, 'boards.cfg')
+        if options.regen_board_list and options.regen_board_list != '-':
+            board_file = options.regen_board_list
 
         brds = boards.Boards()
         if options.maintainer_check:
diff --git a/tools/buildman/func_test.py b/tools/buildman/func_test.py
index 7f3d54cc76..e6cdebdbd1 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/func_test.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/func_test.py
@@ -233,29 +233,33 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
         return command.run_pipe([[self._buildman_pathname] + list(args)],
                 capture=True, capture_stderr=True)
 
-    def _RunControl(self, *args, brds=None, clean_dir=False,
-                    test_thread_exceptions=False):
+    def _RunControl(self, *args, brds=False, clean_dir=False,
+                    test_thread_exceptions=False, get_builder=True):
         """Run buildman
 
         Args:
             args: List of arguments to pass
-            brds: Boards object
+            brds: Boards object, or False to pass self._boards, or None to pass
+                None
             clean_dir: Used for tests only, indicates that the existing output_dir
                 should be removed before starting the build
             test_thread_exceptions: Uses for tests only, True to make the threads
                 raise an exception instead of reporting their result. This simulates
                 a failure in the code somewhere
+            get_builder (bool): Set self._builder to the resulting builder
 
         Returns:
             result code from buildman
         """
         sys.argv = [sys.argv[0]] + list(args)
         options, args = cmdline.ParseArgs()
+        if brds == False:
+            brds = self._boards
         result = control.DoBuildman(options, args, toolchains=self._toolchains,
-                make_func=self._HandleMake, brds=brds or self._boards,
-                clean_dir=clean_dir,
+                make_func=self._HandleMake, brds=brds, clean_dir=clean_dir,
                 test_thread_exceptions=test_thread_exceptions)
-        self._builder = control.builder
+        if get_builder:
+            self._builder = control.builder
         return result
 
     def testFullHelp(self):
@@ -1002,3 +1006,12 @@ endif
         self.assertEquals(2, len(params_list))
         self.assertFalse(warnings)
 
+    def testRegenBoards(self):
+        """Test that we can regenerate the boards.cfg file"""
+        outfile = os.path.join(self._output_dir, 'test-boards.cfg')
+        if os.path.exists(outfile):
+            os.remove(outfile)
+        with test_util.capture_sys_output() as (stdout, stderr):
+            result = self._RunControl('-R', outfile, brds=None,
+                                      get_builder=False)
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(outfile))