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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:03:32 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        rank1seeker@gmail.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: src builds and STDERR
Message-ID:  <CAGH67wT_PZow1xdQg794dB9yMjUoA-nz=FOTsFQetMYGZSPa0g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120301.155632.137.2@DOMY-PC>
References:  <20120301.155632.137.2@DOMY-PC>

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2012/3/1  <rank1seeker@gmail.com>:
> When building world and kernel, I was pissed off with endless amount of output, as it also makes my eyes into rolling, thus decided to care only for errors.
> So I've redirected STDOUT to /dev/null.
> Upon error, there is JUST 1 single line of output. Something like:
> ----
> * 1 error
> ----
> And that is. Nothing else. No way to figure out, what went wrong!.
>
> Why this hasn't been properly implemented?

    See: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-December/029852.html
. Why this patch is still not in FreeBSD proper, I do not know.
Thanks,
-Garrett



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