Re: debug information into a file?

[Torsten Mohr]

Hi,

do you think it would be a useful feature to write the debug information
into a file and have the normal output on stdout?

Or would it make sense to put normal information to stdout and debug
information to stderr?

This would make it possible to write a detailed report, each time
"make" is run and when users complain about "strange problems"
some more information would be there to trace the problems.


Best regards,
Torsten.


> Hi,
>
> i've set up a Makefile that works quite fine, but there was
> one complaint from a co-worker that a certain file was not
> correctly re-made.
>
> To get more information about this i'd like to get more output
> form make, but _not_ make the output on stdout unreadably.
>
> So i'd like to have the complete output of "make -dp" in a
> file and the normal output of "make" on stdout.
>
> I'd like to generate lots of output each time "make" is started
> and when somebody complains that something went wrong i could get
> more hints from the debug output files.
>
> I use GNU make 3.81 beta 3 on Win32, but i don't think this is
> Win32-specific.
>
>
> Is something like this (or similar) possible?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten.
>
>
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