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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:25:47
Message-Id: 1333405472.10130.5.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible by Ryan Hill
1 El sáb, 05-11-2011 a las 21:03 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
2 > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:00:32 +0100
3 > Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > > I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
6 > > > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
7 > >
8 > > That's usually because users sometimes attach only "relevant" parts of build
9 > > log (well, relevant according to their taste = last lines, even when they use
10 > > parallel compilation).
11 >
12 > I think you're confusing build log with build output.
13 >
14 > > Any particular example of bug report with entire build log from cmake-utils in
15 > > fancy mode, and still being unable to locate the problem?
16 > >
17 > > I ask, because we're appending summary just after configure phase to make
18 > > vorbose logging of whole build process unecessary.
19 >
20 > How are you supposed to debug a compile or linker error without the compiler
21 > command line?
22 >
23 >
24
25 How all this ended up? It would still be nice to have verbose output
26 enabled by default (even people being able to use emerge --quiet to
27 silent it) to check for undesired flags (like -Werror,
28 -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED...) easily :)

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