Re: [Boost-build] What controls the error messages from "check-target-builds"?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] What controls the error messages from "check-target-builds"?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-30 16:53:39

On Friday 30 July 2010 19:54:29 John Maddock wrote:

> What - if anything - controls the error messages that may be produced from 
> the compiler when the "check-target-builds" rule is invoked?
> 
> Sometimes all I see is the Boost.Build messages indicating it's doing a 
> configuration check, and sometimes (but not always) prior to that I see the 
> compiler error messages as well.  Is there a way to control this?  I guess 
> normally users would want any compiler error messages suppressed when 
> building Boost (there's a message on the Boost-users group about this, and 
> Boost.Regex which is why I'm asking).  Other times I want to see the errors 
> so I can figure out what the configure tests are actually doing.

All compiler messages are supposed to go to config.log -- does that seem OK?
If so, do you have a recipe where those messages end up in stdout instead?

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
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