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Re: dealing with verbose programs
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: dealing with verbose programs |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:27:15 -0700 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Karl Berry wrote:
>>> A wild thought: what if gnulib-tool saved its output during a run, and
>>> then presented a *diff* of the new output and the old output? I at
>>> least would find that considerably more readable.
>>>
>>> (Along with a mention of the file where the full output can be found, of
>>> course.)
>>
>> I'd love to have the same feature for "configure" and "make" runs.
>> It could be a general-purpose utility, taking a command line as argument,
>> like 'time' and 'nice' are.
>
> Ha! I wrote the following a few weeks ago, thinking some day
> I'd write something more involved. I'm not very happy with it,
> because, at least with coreutils, it runs for too long without
> giving any progress indicator.
You could use "tee" to display the program's output as it runs,
then append the diff when it has completed.
--
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Threads are for people who cant [sic] program state machines."
--Alan Cox
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', (continued)
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', Jim Meyering, 2007/09/04
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', Karl Berry, 2007/09/04
- Re: dealing with verbose programs (was: Re: new module 'calloc-posix'), Bruno Haible, 2007/09/04
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs,
Ben Pfaff <=
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Ben Pfaff, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/05
gnulib-tool: new options --verbose, --quiet, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09
gnulib-tool: new option --extract-notice, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09
new modules 'malloc-posix', 'realloc-posix', 'calloc-posix', Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09