On 3/10/11 3:28 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: >>> It wouldn't be difficult to write as a separate program, which is really >>> how this should be handled. You could redirect a pipeline's STDOUT and >>> STDERR to individual named pipes (FIFOs), and have a separate program >>> read from both pipes, inserting highlights around any data it copies >>> from the STDERR pipe. >>> >> You could, but that would entail modifying every Makefile (a couple of >> hundred), plus automake, etc. > > Nonsense. Just use shell redirections over the full command you're running.
Or just run automake/make via the program I talked about. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/