> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Cc: e...@gnu.org, david.s.bo...@gmail.com, bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:34:44 -0400 > > On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 22:36 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > > > This is useful (to me) because at any time, I know what's running. > > > > ("[Start]" messages minus "[End]" messages.) > > > > > > Thanks, this is the reason I was looking for; that use-case wasn't clear > > > to me based on the previous email. > > > > OK, so what are we going to do about it? Leave, revert, new option? > > I've pushed a change to add a new argument to the -O/--output-sync > option, "job", to write output after each line of the recipe.
What is its purpose? To avoid mixing in the same screen line characters from several parallel sub-makes? (That does happen, albeit rarely.) Or is it something else? _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make