src builds and STDERR

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----- Original Message -----
From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea at freebsd.org>
To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>, rank1seeker at gmail.com, hackers at freebsd.org, fjoe at freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:24:59 +0400
Subject: Re: src builds and STDERR

> Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:38:06AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > 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:
> > >> 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.
> [...]
> > bin/165589 -- thanks!
> 
> The patch from mailing list was already committed to HEAD more than
> 2 weeks ago,
>   http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=231544
> Don't see the MFC timeline, though.  Max, any plans for MFC?
> 
> On the other hand, the error diagnostics from make goes to stdout --
> not very good, because more logical place is stderr.  The following patch
> should help a bit,
>   http://codelabs.ru/fbsd/patches/make/make-redirect-own-error-messages-to-stderr.patch
> but I should review it once more and modify the regression suite to
> handle the change in the make behaviour.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> -- 
> Eygene Ryabinkin                                        ,,,^..^,,,


Excellent! Yours patch(separating stdout & stderr) on top of Garrett's patch, should make it work as it should!
When you review and test it, throw an url of unified patch.
And also make sure this gets MFC-ed to 8.3 and 9.1


Domagoj Smolčić