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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/34459: Dumping config.log on configure error is unintuitive.
Message-ID:  <200201302140.g0ULe1W01056@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/34459; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To: "Thomas Hurst" <freaky@aagh.net>,
	<FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/34459: Dumping config.log on configure error is unintuitive.
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:35:24 -0600

 From: "Thomas Hurst" <freaky@aagh.net>
 >         When configure fails, bsd.port.mk dumps config.log to the
 >         terminal.  This typcially results in several thousand lines of
 >         crap which often hides the actual problem way up in the display
 >         buffer, assuming it extends that far up.
 >
 >         It should either pipe it through a pager, tail the last 20 lines
 >         or so (since that'll be where it failed anyway), or be made
 >         optional.
 
 bsd.port.mk doesn't dump the contents of the config.log.  config.log is
 dumped by the configure script in the work/<distname> directory.
 
 Scot
 

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