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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:50:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Thomas Hurst <freaky@aagh.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/34459: Dumping config.log on configure error is unintuitive.
Message-ID:  <200201302250.g0UMo2p16744@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/34459; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Hurst <freaky@aagh.net>
To: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/34459: Dumping config.log on configure error is unintuitive.
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:43:00 +0000

 * Scot W. Hetzel (hetzels@westbend.net) wrote:
 
 > From: "Thomas Hurst" <freaky@aagh.net>
 > >         When configure fails, bsd.port.mk dumps config.log to the
 > >         terminal.  This typcially results in several thousand lines of
 > >         crap which often hides the actual problem way up in the display
 > >         buffer, assuming it extends that far up.
 > >
 > >         It should either pipe it through a pager, tail the last 20 lines
 > >         or so (since that'll be where it failed anyway), or be made
 > >         optional.
 > 
 > bsd.port.mk doesn't dump the contents of the config.log.  config.log is
 > dumped by the configure script in the work/<distname> directory.
 
 Um, line 2270:
 
 ${CONFIGURE_ENV} ./${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT} ${CONFIGURE_ARGS}; then \
         ${ECHO} "===>  Script \"${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT}\" failed: here are the contents of \"${CONFIGURE_LOG}\""; \
         ${CAT} ${CONFIGURE_LOG}; \
         ${ECHO} "(end of \"${CONFIGURE_LOG}\")"; \
 
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