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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-doc@×××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass: set default of CMAKE_VERBOSE=1
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:38:17
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41uL+goaT6CG0U5iGYo+wRL4C1ZWWCdxCCA_L_yGSAzMQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass: set default of CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 by Johannes Huber
1 On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Johannes Huber <johu@g.o> wrote:
2 > Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 14:41:42 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
3 >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
4 >> > On 05/04/2012 08:00 PM, Johannes Huber wrote:
5 >> >> Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:30:10 schrieb hasufell:
6 >> >>> # @ECLASS-VARIABLE: CMAKE_VERBOSE # @DESCRIPTION: # Set to enable
7 >> >>> verbose messages during compilation.
8 >> >>>
9 >> >>> By default this is deactivated which is inconvenient imo and
10 >> >>> results in pastes having minimum information. I have to tell
11 >> >>> users every time to recompile with CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 so that I have
12 >> >>> proper information on what is going on.
13 >> >>>
14 >> >>> Are there any arguments against this being default?
15 >> >>
16 >> >> In 95-99% of the build failures we get in kde herd the information
17 >> >> is sufficient. So from my point of view the current behaviour is
18 >> >> good.
19 >> >>
20 >> >> Greetings
21 >> >
22 >> > I think that as an argument pro CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 because that would
23 >> > cover 100% instead of 95-99.
24 >>
25 >> I only maintain a couple of cmake-based ebuilds, but I find having the
26 >> full compiler command line useful. Without it, I have to guess at what
27 >> was actually run.
28 >
29 > How about bump docs for that use case? For example
30 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
31 >
32
33 As far as I can tell, such documentation is largely ignored unless
34 users are pointed to it by a comment on a bug. It would be nice to
35 avoid having to wait for the user to respond with the updated build
36 log.

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