[Nix-dev] Making stdenv/setup.sh more verbose

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:24:01 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:16:21PM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > The compile itself is also rather noisy. Can we:
> > a) generate as much output as possible
> > b) catch the output and toggle it by category beyond stdout/stderr
> 
> I don't mind about the compile. In fact I found very helpful to know the cflags
> that to go to gcc. For example, cmake builds could have "VERBOSE=1" in makeFlags
> always, for my taste. :)

I'm in favor of the noise, would just be great to turn it off for those
who don't want it.

> Discussing some annoyances, I dislike the patches on gnumake that create the
> hydra fancy log tree, that I never use because I parse much better the raw log,
> and works slow in my browser. The gnumake terminal sequences look very bad if
> seen through 'less', and that's what I use most either in 'ts' or in 'nix-store
> -l'.
> 
> Regards,
> Lluís. :)

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