-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/5/11 7:03 AM, Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi Pete, > > | > It typically takes tens of minutes or even hours to install a | > > largish package such as gimp and thousands or tens of thousands > of | > lines ofmessages are emitted on the screen, which is the > reason | > why I hesitate to capture and store those messages. | | > In such a situation the use of GNU Emacs can be handy: using its | > compile-mode [. . .] > > I'm confused. I was talking about running "fink install". So, I'm > not sure what you mean by "compile-mode". > > Do you mean that running fink in a terminal within emacs? (M-x > shell or M-x eshell) Then, yes, you keep all messages in emacs. > I'll try that next time. > > | > (building GCC 4.4 or 4.6 lasts for days on a PowerBook G4). | > Oh my god, the beloved PowerBook G4! I have one and love it, > except it's super langsam! > > Ryo >
One can just use e.g. "fink -l install" to capture logs, too. Those get divided up into logs for the individual packages so that it's easy to find the last one you tried. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5kthUACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8+nQCgnMHhq4FhHODnC3AltbtIleEv IAYAoKIMd6xZsmH5A0UZXRFdPoD5SiUW =kUAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
