[Buildroot] Discussion on per-package logging

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 11-10-17 10:58, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> One first issue with top-level parallel build is simple: the build
> output of several packages is mixed up, making the overall build output
> mostly unreadable. 

 For the record (since I'm sure this must have been discussed before), why isn't
the --output-sync option sufficient? Output from parallel make is expected to be
garbled in any parallel build. When a user calls 'make -j', we can expect them
to also provide --output-sync=recurse option.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> Therefore, an idea is to log the build output in log
> files per package, and only keep the ">>> foo 1.0 Building" messages on
> the standard output. It turns out this is not as easy as it sounds, and
> it seems like there is no good solution for that.

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