From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 8 18:31:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00458 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00449 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA21078; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:00:40 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807090130.LAA21078@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Birrell 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:03:39 +1000." <199807090103.LAA24575@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:00:40 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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