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From: Johannes Huber <johu@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 19:26:25
Message-Id: 1517124.1ufszokuM0@pizarro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass: set default of CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 by Mike Gilbert
1 Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 14:41:42 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
2 > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On 05/04/2012 08:00 PM, Johannes Huber wrote:
4 > >> Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:30:10 schrieb hasufell:
5 > >>> # @ECLASS-VARIABLE: CMAKE_VERBOSE # @DESCRIPTION: # Set to enable
6 > >>> verbose messages during compilation.
7 > >>>
8 > >>> By default this is deactivated which is inconvenient imo and
9 > >>> results in pastes having minimum information. I have to tell
10 > >>> users every time to recompile with CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 so that I have
11 > >>> proper information on what is going on.
12 > >>>
13 > >>> Are there any arguments against this being default?
14 > >>
15 > >> In 95-99% of the build failures we get in kde herd the information
16 > >> is sufficient. So from my point of view the current behaviour is
17 > >> good.
18 > >>
19 > >> Greetings
20 > >
21 > > I think that as an argument pro CMAKE_VERBOSE=1 because that would
22 > > cover 100% instead of 95-99.
23 >
24 > I only maintain a couple of cmake-based ebuilds, but I find having the
25 > full compiler command line useful. Without it, I have to guess at what
26 > was actually run.
27
28 How about bump docs for that use case? For example
29 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
30
31 Cheers
32 --
33 Johannes Huber (johu)
34 Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team
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