On 2014-05-10 18:27, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > (I'm currently using Cabal 1.18.) > > Working with sandboxes and multiple cabal packages (via --add-source and > a super-package which requires all the others), I've found that the > > Showing last 10 lines of the build log > > feature is less useful than one would hope for. When restructuring code > across multiple packages there's a lot of potential for huge error > messages, *and* furthermore the most interesting lines in the build log > are actually towards the *start* og the build log since that's where the > *first* error shows up -- given the nature of compilers you generally > always want to fix the first-occuring error first since that may fix > subsequent errors. > > So, here's a little feature request: Couldn't we just have cabal install > spit out the full build log in case a build fails? Is there any real > disadvantage that I'm not seeing? >
Lodged as https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/1856 _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel