[PATCH 3/4] MAKEALL: error out on options placed after the defconfig argument

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Mon Feb 23 03:52:52 PST 2026


Hi,

On 2/23/26 12:50 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:31:34PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> getopts stops parsing at the first non-option argument, so options
>> like -k after the defconfig name silently end up as positional
>> arguments. For bare defconfigs these get misinterpreted as pytest
>> options and are silently ignored, leading to a build without the
>> intended configuration.
>>
>> Detect this by checking for trailing arguments when any positional
>> argument is a bare defconfig (not a labgrid .yaml config, where
>> extra arguments are intentionally forwarded to pytest).
> 
> Can't we use getopt for MAKEALL instead of getopts? getopt just does the
> right thing.

When using MAKEALL with a labgrid yaml instead of a defconfig, it
derives the defconfig name and interprets the options after the yaml as
pytest options, so use of getopt would break that.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> Sascha
> 
>>
>> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply at anthropic.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
>> ---
>>  MAKEALL | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAKEALL b/MAKEALL
>> index c36aed625820..dd0b7f8003cc 100755
>> --- a/MAKEALL
>> +++ b/MAKEALL
>> @@ -440,6 +440,15 @@ else
>>  
>>  		configs+=($i)
>>  	done
>> +	if [ ${#pytest_opts[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
>> +		for i in "${configs[@]}"; do
>> +			if ! [[ $i =~ .yaml$ ]]; then
>> +				echo "error: unexpected arguments after defconfig: ${pytest_opts[*]}" >&2
>> +				echo "hint: place all options before the defconfig argument" >&2
>> +				exit 1
>> +			fi
>> +		done
>> +	fi
>>  	for i in "${configs[@]}"; do
>>  		config=$i
>>  		if [[ $i =~ ^.*/([^/]+)/([^@]*@|)([^.]+).yaml$ ]]; then
>> -- 
>> 2.47.3
>>
>>
>>
> 




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