Bug#628515: recommending verbose build logs
* Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 2011-11-26, 18:37:
Matthias Klose wrote:
It's always interesting to look at build logs, or to receive bug
reports of the form
CC
<compiler error message>
or
CCLD
<linker error message>
without knowing how the compiler or the linker were called. Maybe it
is convenient for a package maintainer watching the build scrolling by
(some of these are even colorized), but lacking this kind of
information in the first place seems to be the wrong thing.
Fully agreed.
So please let us deprecate this anti-feature and recommend verbose
build logs by default and only turn them off by request (e.g. with
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noverbose).
As much as I agree with your goal (being able to easily understand and
diagnose miscompilations and build failures) I do not suspect there is
a consensus for this.
Why do you think there is not?
Some maintainers enjoy reading abbreviated build logs, where error
messages and warnings stand out.
Sure, that's why DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noverbose was proposed.
--
Jakub Wilk
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