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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:14:06
Message-Id: 4EDD4206.30707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13 by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger schrieb:
2 >> Not all failures are errors, only errors are shown
3 >
4 > all failures as characterized by "ebuild called `die`" get shown -- portage
5 > dumps the entire log, thus your need to copy & paste the log file to `cat` is
6 > garbage.
7 >
8 > all "failures" that don't result in an aborted build (e.g. EAPI=0 dodoc on
9 > missing file) will get "missed". many of those are logged as QA warnings, but
10 > it seems default --quiet-build=y will not include these in the log summary.
11 > this might be useful to fix -- i'll poke Zac about it if he doesn't see this e-
12 > mail.
13 >
14 > otherwise, your statement is really way too zen to get anything meaningful out
15 > of it. post actual examples of what you're talking about.
16
17 Attached you will find a build.log of trying to build cdrtools on
18 sparc-solaris prefix. Admittedly a bit exotic, but far from unique incident.
19
20 A moderately knowledgeable user would notice that something is wrong
21 from watching the build output for a couple of seconds. Portage however
22 proceeds happily because make returns exit status 0.
23
24
25 Best regards,
26 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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