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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:54:16
Message-Id: 20111105210307.570e6c52@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:00:32 +0100
2 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > > I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
5 > > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
6 >
7 > That's usually because users sometimes attach only "relevant" parts of build
8 > log (well, relevant according to their taste = last lines, even when they use
9 > parallel compilation).
10
11 I think you're confusing build log with build output.
12
13 > Any particular example of bug report with entire build log from cmake-utils in
14 > fancy mode, and still being unable to locate the problem?
15 >
16 > I ask, because we're appending summary just after configure phase to make
17 > vorbose logging of whole build process unecessary.
18
19 How are you supposed to debug a compile or linker error without the compiler
20 command line?
21
22
23 --
24 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense
25 toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime
26 @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662

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