Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
Going through the current BUILD.html file again I see that things are a
lot clearer now. However one thing that needs to be explained is the
section that says 'When the build is finished, you should check the
World.log file to see if there were any problems'. Fair enough. Well the
first time a user attemps to do exactly that, they will bring it up in
their favorite editor and immediately say to themselves 'How the hell do
I know if there is an error!'. The next obvious idea is to grep for
'error', but that also is not good because there are lots of files with
'error' in the filename!
actually "Error" is what I look for (depends on the compiler and related
utilities).
I ususally end up searching for *** in the logs (which of course requires
doing /\*\*\* in less/vi/more/etc), but I think that's an artifact of
certain make implementations and not universal.
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Platform Globalization Engin. - X11 Engineering
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