On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Philip Prindeville < philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > First off, this isn't a bug report so much as a feature request. > > I do a lot of cross-compilation of linux and various packages for embedded > distros. > > Version bumps are always perilous because cross-compilation often suffers > regression. > > The problem is that a lot of the regressions don't cause the build to > fail... it just generates invalid results. > > Sometimes (not often but sometimes) an innocuous clue with will buried deep > within thousands (or tends of thousands) of lines of "make all" output. > > And by output, I mean STDERR. > > My request is simple. Using termcap/ncurses info (which you need anyway > for the readline stuff), it would be nice to have the option of running > commands in a pseudo-tty and then bracketing the output from STDERR with > <highlight on>...<highlight off>. > > I've ever seen some util like colorgcc. Is that what you want? > Of course, that also implies that your writes to wherever STDERR eventually > goes are atomic and won't be interspersed with output from STDOUT. I'll let > someone more intimate with the particulars of stdio and tty drivers and line > disciplines figure that bit out. > > This would be nice because it would allow one to quickly identify and > isolate potentially detrimental error messages from mundane but profuse > output that logs commands being invoked, etc. > > Does this seem doable? > > Thanks, > > -Philip > > > -- Clark J. Wang
