Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El sáb, 05-11-2011 a las 21:03 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:00:32 +0100
> Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
> > > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
> > 
> > That's usually because users sometimes attach only "relevant" parts of build 
> > log (well, relevant according to their taste = last lines, even when they use 
> > parallel compilation).
> 
> I think you're confusing build log with build output.
> 
> > Any particular example of bug report with entire build log from cmake-utils in 
> > fancy mode, and still being unable to locate the problem?
> > 
> > I ask, because we're appending summary just after configure phase to make 
> > vorbose logging of whole build process unecessary.
> 
> How are you supposed to debug a compile or linker error without the compiler
> command line?
> 
> 

How all this ended up? It would still be nice to have verbose output
enabled by default (even people being able to use emerge --quiet to
silent it) to check for undesired flags (like -Werror,
-DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED...) easily :)

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