more verbosity

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Sep 13 12:23:12 PDT 2009


On 2009-09-13 00:41 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Due to the volume of information printed by the -d switch, its use can  
> cause you to overlook important messages ports sometimes print out. 
>
> For developing your own portfiles using -d is great and helpful, but  
> for general use, I recommend you install and upgrade ports without the  
> -d flag, and if you encounter an error, then clean the affected port  
> and try again with -d to see the full error.

This will be improved once we merge the Google Summer of Code project
from Dmitry which will provide better ways to analyze and filter the log
messages even after a failed build. Especially you will not have to do
an extra run to see debug output.

Rainer


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