Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE

[rank1seeker at gmail.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
To: rank1seeker at gmail.com
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, hackers at freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:33:39 -0700
Subject: Re: Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE

> On 4/25/2012 7:55 AM, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > Well, those can be left in place, if they are part of STDOUT, as I
> > leave only STDERR to reach my eyes. And I see exactly those 2 'ln -s
> > ...' lines because they are outputed  to STDERR.
> 
> Right, I have the same issue with mergemaster ever since I redirected
> stdout from 'make distribution' to /dev/null.
> 
> John is correct that I simply copied the existing example, my assumption
> at the time was that 'set -x' there was a cheap way to get some kind of
> output to let the user know what was being done (similar to what make
> does by default). I will test a patch to change that to echo'ing
> something useful to stdout instead unless anyone has an objection.
> 
> Don't expect the result soon though, super, super, super busy with
> work/life/etc. atm. And as John pointed out, it's been there for a while. :)
> 
> Doug
> 

No problem.
BUT, before you start doing ANYTHING, look at 'src builds and STDERR' thread:

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120302.180625.051.3

It is critical to continue right on top of those patches.
I hope it'll all end up in 9.1


Domagoj Smolčić