buildman: Add a flag to control the traceback

At present the full horror of the Python traceback is shown by default. It
is normally only useful for debugging. Turn it off by default and add a
--debug flag to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

diff --git a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
index 274b5ac3f45d06f8aca22f8260f539f08d33cce8..092a82f4e9c14fa6930f846e61c99b7ea2a01542 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/cmdline.py
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ def ParseArgs():
           help='Show detailed size delta for each board in the -S summary')
     parser.add_option('-D', '--config-only', action='store_true', default=False,
           help="Don't build, just configure each commit")
+    parser.add_option('--debug', action='store_true',
+        help='Enabling debugging (provides a full traceback on error)')
     parser.add_option('-e', '--show_errors', action='store_true',
           default=False, help='Show errors and warnings')
     parser.add_option('-E', '--warnings-as-errors', action='store_true',

diff --git a/tools/buildman/main.py b/tools/buildman/main.py
index 2b714739a20546647333e9e1addeecafdc2bcc70..04698ce9e50300010e00c37ff46d9093f37829e7 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/buildman/main.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/main.py
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ def RunTests(skip_net_tests):
 
 options, args = cmdline.ParseArgs()
 
+if not options.debug:
+    sys.tracebacklimit = 0
+
 # Run our meagre tests
 if options.test:
     RunTests(options.skip_net_tests)