src builds and STDERR

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 16:31:18 UTC 2012


2012/3/1  <rank1seeker at 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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