[Buildroot] Discussion on per-package logging

[Yann E. MORIN]

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

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