Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Matthias Kilian" <address@hidden>
To: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output


> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:16:21PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote:
> >     * Wherever possible, stderr output should go to *.err.log and
> >       stdout output to *.log
>
> Wouldn't it be better to either collect both stdout and stderr in
> the same log file or to use three log files .err.log, .out.log and
> .log, where the latter contains the combined streams? Otherwise you are
> loosing the context between the two, which sometimes may be important.
>
> (Now hacking on a simple script for doing such logging; similar to
> http://tratt.net/laurie/src/supuner/, but simpler and better matching
> lilypond needs)
>
> Ciao,
> Kili


There's often an overwhelming amount of standard output, so it seemed better 
to keep them separate.

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Phil Holmes