xorg-libX{cursor,inerama} build failures

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Mon Sep 7 17:21:20 PDT 2009


--On September 7, 2009 6:31:12 PM -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg 
<jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote:

>> [...] and attach the debug output, obtained this way:
>>
>> sudo port clean xorg-libXinerama
>> sudo port -d install xorg-libXinerama 2>&1 \
>> | tee ~/Desktop/xorg-libXinerama.txt
>> bzip2 ~/Desktop/xorg-libXinerama.txt
>
> The single most annoying documented bug of csh/tcsh is that there is
> no equivalent of the 2>&1 construct.  I was already aware of this,
> but you may wish to keep that in mind when you spell out instructions
> for others.

It's true that bash has more general redirection operators than tcsh, 
but this particular case is easy in tcsh too.  You can pipe both 
standard error and standard output somewhere using the "|&" operator, 
or you can send both to a file using ">&".

      Mike



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