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From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:05:10 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] core: enable per-package log files
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:11:06AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:09:11 +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:
> 
> > > Well, in this case, you'd get the message twice on your terminal if you
> > > run "make 2>&1 | tee logfile". Only one of the two will be saved in the
> > > log file, but both of them will be visible on your tty.  
> > 
> > It should be possible to detect if stdout is a tty or a pipe, and not
> > print on the tty when it's already one.
> 
> And when it's both, with "tee" ? :-)

Then we could consider the pipe case to be the same as a tty :-)

But as I said, there should be a top logfile by default, removing the
need for tee.

Regards,

Anisse