Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:07:33 -0500 From: Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com> To: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages Message-ID: <20110123230733.GA24421@mark-debian.phub.net.cable.rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <4D3B8BD4.5010606@centurytel.net> References: <4D3B8BD4.5010606@centurytel.net>
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:00:52PM -0600, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > Good Day, > > I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering > how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, > ebook for example, emits messages in various colors. How is that > done? Where does one find what the various colors are supposed to > signify? Or, is it just because it's more appealing? > > Thank You, > > Michael I'm not sure about ebook specifically, but there's a wrapper for gcc called colorgcc which colorizes the diagnostics and errors that gcc emits. The idea is that one can just do something like "CC=colorgcc make" when building. I'm sure there are other programs out there that do something similar, but colorgcc is the most common I think. Apparently there are similar wrappers for make and diff as well. -Mark
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