Re: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc
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>
> > Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 16:22:14 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > > 2>&1 sends error and normal output to the same place.
> >
> > Hmm, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of error messages?
> > I mean, by this you are HIDING the error messages, too. The current 
> > problem
> > with the make output is that a plethora of useless progress messages are
> > hiding those few error messages that would be really useful to be seen.
> >
> > Hiding all error messages together with the progress messages is throwing 
> > out
> > the baby with the bath water (as we say here in German).
>
> I can't say I disagree.  As it stands, however, my initial goal is to get 
> the output down to a readable amount full stop - if that means discarding 
> a few error messages thrown by LilyPond in compiling lily files to create 
> midi files, I'm not sure I'd be too worried.  It's trivial to reduce the 
> redirect to output information only, and once again show errors on the 
> terminal.

I think there's another problem with this.  If I run

lilypond test.ly 1> test.log

it should redirect non-error output to the file, and errors should appear in 
the terminal.  In contrast,

lilypond test.ly 2> test.log

errors are in the log, normal output to terminal.  In practice, I see all 
output appearing in the terminal in the first line, and the logfile in the 
second line.  Does lily distinguish between error and normal output?


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Phil Holmes