Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:00:40 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), imp@village.org, tcole@nihilist.org, patton@sysnet.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building world Message-ID: <199807090130.LAA21078@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:03:39 %2B1000." <199807090103.LAA24575@cimlogic.com.au>
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> make so that failure reports would provide meaningful information. What > about a program like "tee", but one which just keeps the last few hundred > lines of output? If /usr/src/Makefile was split into /usr/src/Makefile.build, > this error output capturing could be implemented as part of the execution > of the sub-make. Hmm.. I suppose you want it automagic, but whenever I do a buildworld I always fo (for example) 'make -DNOPROFILE buildworld |& tee buildworld.log' Then if it blows up I can do 'tail -30 buildworld.log' --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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