Showing the full ./configure command also with -v, not just with -d

[Sean Farley]

Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would really appreciate it if I could see the complete configure
> command already in verbose mode (port -v configure), not just debug
> mode (port -d configure). The same applies to build/make, but usually
> that one doesn't contain so much extra parameters.
>
> The command "port -d ..." is waaaay too verbose, hardly useful for any
> port maintainer, and it's sometimes very difficult to find the
> relevant output, while "port -v ..." seems just perfect for showing
> that. We already get hundreds of lines of output during "./configure",
> so one extra line would bring a lot of benefit with hardly any
> penalty.
>
> (Environmental variables would also be very helpful, even though I
> wouldn't know whether they make more sense in verbose or debug mode. I
> would like to see them in verbose mode as well, but it's still ok if
> they are more hidden than the configure command itself.)

I have wanted this for a very long time!