configure: make it work from clean repo

README.adoc

@@ -8571,7 +8571,7 @@ parsecmgmt -a run -p splash2x.fmm -i test
 
 ====== PARSEC uninstall
 
-If you want to remove PARSEC later, Buildroot doesn't provide an automated package removal mechanism as documented at: link:https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/2017.08/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt#L90[], but the following procedure should be satisfactory:
+If you want to remove PARSEC later, Buildroot doesn't provide an automated package removal mechanism: <<remove-buildroot-packages>>, but the following procedure should be satisfactory:
 
 ....
 rm -rf \
@@ -9575,6 +9575,14 @@ For how to use that package, see: <<packages-directory>>.
 
 Then iterate trying to do what you want and reading the manual until it works: https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html
 
+=== Remove Buildroot packages
+
+Once you've built a package in to the image, there is no easy way to remove it.
+
+Documented at: link:https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/2017.08/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt#L90[]
+
+See this for a sample manual workaround: <<parsec-uninstall>>.
+
 === BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE
 
 When adding new large package to the Buildroot root filesystem, it may fail with the message:
@@ -10944,23 +10952,30 @@ This can be used to check the determinism of:
 
 ==== Release
 
-This is not yet super stable, but one day maybe this script will automatically do a release:
+Create a release:
 
 ....
+git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat linux-kernel-module-cheat-release
+cd linux-kernel-module-cheat-release
 ./release
 ....
 
 Source: link:release[].
 
-When ready, that script should:
+This scripts does:
 
+* configure
 * build
-* test
 * package with <<release-zip>>
+* creates a tag of form `sha-<sha>`
 * upload to GitHub with link:release-create-github[]
 
+Cloning a clean tree is ideal as it generates clean images since <<remove-buildroot-packages,it is not possible to remove Buildroot packages>>
+
 This should in particular enable to easily update <<prebuilt>>.
 
+TODO also run tests and only release if they pass.
+
 ===== release-zip
 
 Create a zip containing all files required for <<prebuilt>>

configure

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -eu
+all=false
 apt_get=true
 baremetal=false
 baremetal_given=false
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@ buildroot_given=false
 linux=true
 linux_given=false
 interactive_pkgs=libsdl2-dev
+parsec_benchmark_given=false
 gem5=false
 gem5_given=false
 qemu=true
@@ -17,8 +19,11 @@ submodules=
 y=
 while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
   case "$1" in
+    --all)
+      all=true
+      shift
+    ;;
     --baremetal)
-      baremetal=true
       baremetal_given=true
       shift
     ;;
@@ -31,7 +36,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
       shift
     ;;
     --parsec-benchmark)
-      submodules="${submodules} parsec-benchmark"
+      parsec_benchmark_given=true
       shift
     ;;
     --qemu)
@@ -53,15 +58,21 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     ;;
   esac
 done
-if "$gem5_given" && ! "$qemu_given"; then
+if ! "$all" && "$gem5_given" && ! "$qemu_given"; then
   qemu=false
 fi
-if "$gem5_given"; then
+if "$all" || "$gem5_given"; then
   gem5=true
 fi
-if "$baremetal_given" && ! "$buildroot_given"; then
+if "$all" || "$baremetal_given"; then
+  baremetal=true
+fi
+if ! "$all" && "$baremetal_given" && ! "$buildroot_given"; then
   buildroot=false
 fi
+if "$all" || "$parsec_benchmark_given"; then
+  submodules="${submodules} parsec-benchmark"
+fi
 
 if "$apt_get"; then
   pkgs="\

release

@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ https://upload.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat#release
 import imp
 import os
 import subprocess
+import time
 
 import common
 release_zip = imp.load_source('release_zip', os.path.join(common.root_dir, 'release-zip'))
 release_upload = imp.load_source('release_upload', os.path.join(common.root_dir, 'release-upload'))
 
+start_time = time.time()
 # TODO factor those out so we don't redo the same thing multiple times.
 # subprocess.check_call([os.path.join(common.root_dir, 'test')])
 # subprocess.check_call([os.path.join(common.root_dir, ''bench-all', '-A', '-u'])
@@ -21,7 +23,11 @@ release_upload = imp.load_source('release_upload', os.path.join(common.root_dir,
 # installed in random experiments. And with EXT2: we can't easily
 # know what the smallest root filesystem size is and use it either...
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47320800/how-to-clean-only-target-in-buildroot
+subprocess.check_call([os.path.join(common.root_dir, 'configure'), '--all'])
 subprocess.check_call([os.path.join(common.root_dir, 'build-all')])
 release_zip.main()
+subprocess.check_call(['git', 'tag', common.sha])
 subprocess.check_call(['git', 'push'])
 release_upload.main()
+end_time = time.time()
+common.print_time(end_time - start_time)