.TH ABUILD 1 "October 24, 2006"
.SH NAME
abuild \- build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B abuild
\fR[\fB\-abxVh\fR] [\fB\-t\fR vendor/board] [\fB\-p\fR dir]
[LBROOT]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B abuild
is a utility used to easily build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets.
.SH OPTIONS
The
.B "[LBROOT]"
parameter tells
.B abuild
where the root directory of the LinuxBIOS build tree resides. Per default
this is
.B "../.."
as the
.B abuild
script resides in
.BR "[LBROOT]/utils/abuild" .
.TP
.B "\-a, \-\-all"
Build previously succeeded ports as well.
.TP
.B "\-b, \-\-broken"
Attempt to build ports that are known to be broken.
.TP
.B "\-p, \-\-payloads <dir>"
Use payloads in
.B "<dir>"
to build images. This will run payload.sh in that directory to find out the
path of the payload.
.TP
.B "\-t, \-\-target <vendor/board>"
Attempt to build target vendor/board only.
.TP
.B "\-x, \-\-xml"
Write an XML log file instead of a plain-text one.
The file will be called
.B abuild.xml
and will be created in the current directory.
.TP
.B "\-T, \-\-test"
Submit generated image(s) to the automated test system.
The results of the tests will be made available at 
.B http://qa.linuxbios.org/log_manual.php
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Show a help text and exit.
.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-version"
Show version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
.SH LICENCE
.B abuild
is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR romcc (1),
.BR flashrom (1).
.SH COPYRIGHT
2004 Stefan Reinauer
.br
2006 coresystems GmbH
.SH AUTHORS
Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
.PP
This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).