From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:10:41 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Discussion on per-package logging In-Reply-To: <20171011151918.5c48d933@windsurf.lan> References: <20171011105809.2bf05267@windsurf.lan> <20171011130842.GA2659@scaer> <20171011151918.5c48d933@windsurf.lan> Message-ID: <20171011141041.GA2801@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2017-10-11 15:19 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:08:42 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > In my opinion, we can't do and should not do anything about it. > > > > Either the user wants a fast build, and then it is acceptable that the > > output gets mangled, or he is trying to debug the build and thus is not > > doing parallel build to start with. > > I disagree with you, because there will obviously be cases where we > want to debug a parallel build. A parallel build might uncover some > specific issues, and we will want to have a look at the build log of a > given package to understand what happened. > > So I disagree on your assumption that either you're debugging or you're > building in parallel. Fair enough. Yet, that does not change the outcome: we can't and shouldn't do much. The user can specify -Orecursive (or maybe just -Otarget) in that case. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. > Best regards, > > Thomas Petazzoni > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering > http://free-electrons.com -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'