Reacting to build errors from a Portfile (e.g. giving specific hints)

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday August 27 2024 08:42:29 Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:

>We don't have additional information about why a build failed. If you have foreknowledge of why a build might fail, I suggest you spend the time fixing the port so that it does not fail to build in that way rather than attempting to implement this feature you're talking about. 

That wasn't feasible in this case, I wouldn't have come here asking if it were.

NB: this is not for anything intended to be upstreamed but purely for ports from my personal trees. But I do have users of those.