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10 April 201714 December 2021

Recursive Make Considered Harmful

I'm setting up a new project, and I find that beginnings are a time for reflection and thought. One area of investigation is how I want to design the buildsystem. As part of my research, I stumbled across Peter Miller's 1998 paper "Recursive make Considered Harmful". Many projects I've worked on have involved a recursive …

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3 March 201721 April 2020

Announcing ea-jenkins Repository

I want to announce a new repository: ea-jenkins. ea-jenkins contains an example Jenkins build server configuration. This configuration can be imported into your own Jenkins build server to get you up and running quickly. I recommend forking this repository for your own development purposes. Importing the ea-jenkins Configuration To utilize this base config with Jenkins, …

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23 December 201621 April 2020

Jenkins: Excluding Directories when Cleaning Workspace

For most projects, I recommend that nightly builds start with a completely clean workspace. However, there are certain cases where cleaning is not feasible - repos including large artifacts (e.g. specific toolchains) or numerous git-lfs artifacts. You can destroy bandwidth and increase build time by re-downloading these files for every build. Using jenkins, you can …

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21 December 201616 February 2024

Giving Your Firmware Build a Version

Every software product needs a version number. Once bug reports start rolling in, a version number is an absolute requirement for debugging and addressing issues In this guide, I describe the details I like to store in each build, how I capture these details, and how I make them available to the firmware. Table of Contents: …

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