src builds and STDERR

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 17:38:07 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!

bin/165589 -- thanks!
-Garrett


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