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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: collecting important make warning messages
From:       Michael Matz <matz () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-09-28 19:19:36
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Hi,

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>
> the top-level makefile would export a variable with the location of
> the log file and cat that file as the last action. lower-level makefiles
> could invoke '<whatever-which-could-warn> 2>&1 | tee $(MSGFILE)' to put
> interesting messages into this file.
> that way we could be sure that the user does not miss important warnings
> without aborting the make install.

Hrg.  This would mean to modify all Makefiles (or at least those deemed
important enough, but still adds a huge maintenance burden), and would not
add much functionality to: 'make 2>&1 | tee log', with a
post-processing step, which could be centralized.  What's wrong with that?


Ciao,
Michael.

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