On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
> > > On 04/08/2016 06:19 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> could we perhaps lower the verbosity level of the msvc build (in >> src/tools/msvc/build.pl) from "detailed" to "normal"? In my experiment, >> this reduces the size of the build log by 96.4 percent (from 12.5 MiB to >> 438 KiB), or if the log is not redirected, it shortens the build time by 45 >> percent, from just under 6 minutes to 3. >> >> The lines that would not be logged anymore are mostly "Task [or Target] >> so-and-so skipped, due to false condition". All the compiler, linker, etc. >> command lines are still there. >> >> Also, with the "detailed" logs, loading the buildfarm status page for a >> failure in the Make stage is really painful. >> >> >> > > Yes! I was just wondering yesterday how to do this. If nobody objects I'm > going to apply and backpatch this quite soon. This will also have > beneficial effects on the buildfarm server. > +1 for doing that. It seems easy enough to manually turn it on if it turns out to be necessary to debug some specific issue in the future. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/