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-rw-r--r--tools/binman/ftest.py5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 08c3e56bde..7f558ec6a9 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -536,6 +536,10 @@ entry contents.
Most of the time such essoteric behaviour is not needed, but it can be
essential for complex images.
+If you need to specify a particular device-tree compiler to use, you can define
+the DTC environment variable. This can be useful when the system dtc is too
+old.
+
History / Credits
-----------------
diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
index 5812ab397c..b0832da08a 100644
--- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
+++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
@@ -290,7 +290,10 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
"""Test that the full help is displayed with -H"""
result = self._RunBinman('-H')
help_file = os.path.join(self._binman_dir, 'README')
- self.assertEqual(len(result.stdout), os.path.getsize(help_file))
+ # Remove possible extraneous strings
+ extra = '::::::::::::::\n' + help_file + '\n::::::::::::::\n'
+ gothelp = result.stdout.replace(extra, '')
+ self.assertEqual(len(gothelp), os.path.getsize(help_file))
self.assertEqual(0, len(result.stderr))
self.assertEqual(0, result.return_code)