-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Just curiosity, what's the size of this redirected output file? > >> > > >> > Secondly: let's assume it's a million lines worth (this much it seems > >> > to me). > >> > >> It's not THAT bad: A clean "make" and "make web" is "just" a bit over > >> 133.000 lines, resulting in a redirected output file of 15MB (The file > >> has 15.2 Mio. characters)... > > > > Roughly 26.500 of the lines come from the font generation, which spills > > out loads of lines, which are absolutely incomprehensible to any mortal > > (each glyph in each of our differently-sized fonts gets a line with > > several numbers associated to the glyph). Do we really need that > > excessive output? Is there any way to turn that off, anyway? > > Hi, > > I want to see this output, because I will notice when things are out > of the ordinary. I also find it highly annoying when projects > 'prettify' their build output, because it makes debugging much more > difficult. > > For example, you can reproduce problems in the build by cut & pasting > the build output very easy. > > If you think it is too much, run it with >& log.txt and use a pager > to navigate it.
Hehe, that's exactly why I'm all for reducing the output: I tried debugging some build problems with the documentation using texi2html, but was so overwhelmed by the 100.000+ lines of build output that it was really hard to not loose orientation... Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIrX6KTqjEwhXvPN0RAjxbAKCz3fU8M1DW/wj5UNoCd8s88SYy0QCeKjkn iK6xTV0FPh0aTv24xDkccfM= =k6LT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
