src builds and STDERR

[rank1seeker at gmail.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com>
To: Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>
Cc: hackers at freebsd.org, rank1seeker at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:38:06 -0800
Subject: Re: src builds and STDERR

> 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
> 

Hm ...
I've just attempted to crosscompile 9.0 kernel (i386 -> amd64).
It failed! The only output to STDERR was: (STDOUT to /dev/null)
----
1 error
----
Everything same ... Am I missing something or what?


Domagoj Smolčić