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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:06:03
Message-Id: 20149.6251.530532.467039@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible by Kacper Kowalik
1 >>>>> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
2
3 > I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have
4 > cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but
5 > there's a lot of packages that support things like "make V=1" or
6 > "make VERBOSE=1" too.
7
8 > I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
9 > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
10
11 In fact, there's already bug 379497 [1] open for this. Some build
12 systems might use the variable V for something else, so adding
13 --disable-silent-rules may be the safer solution.
14
15 Ulrich
16
17 [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379497>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>