src builds and STDERR

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 17:24:28 UTC 2012


On 1 Mar 2012 16:31, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

If you send a PR, I'll do what I can to get it in-- you know things
sometimes get lost in mailing lists!

Chris


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