Benjamin Kietzman created ARROW-6479:
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             Summary: [C++] inline errors from external projects' build logs
                 Key: ARROW-6479
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6479
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: C++
            Reporter: Benjamin Kietzman


Currently when an external project build fails, we get a very uninformative 
message:

{code}
[88/543] Performing build step for 'flatbuffers_ep'
FAILED: flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build 
flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-install/bin/flatc 
flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-install/lib/libflatbuffers.a 
cd /build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-build && /usr/bin/cmake 
-P 
/build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build-DEBUG.cmake
 && /usr/bin/cmake -E touch 
/build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build
CMake Error at 
/build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build-DEBUG.cmake:16
 (message):
  Command failed: 1

   '/usr/bin/cmake' '--build' '.'

  See also

    
/build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build-*.log
{code}

It would be far more useful if the error were caught and relevant section (or 
even the entirity) of {{ 
/build/cpp/flatbuffers_ep-prefix/src/flatbuffers_ep-stamp/flatbuffers_ep-build-*.log}}
 were output instead. This is doubly the case on CI where accessing those logs 
is non trivial



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