Feedback on the New Build System

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 3/13/13 7:35 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > I still think it should be a configure option, which is the first
> > place I looked.
> 
> You'd usually use it if something interesting happens, like a build
> failure, and
> it's a you're 'not sure how it could have come to this' situation, so
> in that case,
> having to re-run configure, and potentially the whole build again
> seems like a worse
> option then just adding a variable to the make run as you need it (or
> not).
> 

I wasn't suggesting that we replace one with the other, just that configure
could be used to pass a setting through to make if requested.  It also then
means that all the options are documented in one place (./configure --help)
rather than some being there, some only in the build README, some not at all,
etc.

I prefer to run with it always enabled and it worries me that this is no longer
the default.  It's very easy to suppress information when you don't want it, but
it's impossible to produce it if it never existed in the first place.  The very
people who most need verbose output, when things go wrong, are going to be
newbies who won't be aware of this option.  Also, failures may be sporadic
and not reproducible when you run make again and many of our builds run on
remote build systems where it's not a simple case of 'just running make again' to
get the output with verbosity.

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
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