427180 – Eclasses should not enable verbose build output by default

Bug 427180 - Eclasses should not enable verbose build output by default

Summary: Eclasses should not enable verbose build output by default

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2012-07-19 07:44 UTC by Jacek Szafarkiewicz
Modified:	2012-07-20 16:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jacek Szafarkiewicz 2012-07-19 07:44:54 UTC

I don't know why eclasses are verbose by default
e.g. 
in qt4-build.eclass:366
local conf="-(...) -verbose"

in cmake-utils.eclass:143
: ${CMAKE_VERBOSE:=ON}
(it was discussed in Bug 306207 and cmake shouldn't be verbose)

I'm not a gentoo developer (yet?) and I don't need to see whole path which is running.
It is more readable for user to see qmake config insted of what command is run.
I think the option "--verbose" in emerge (or other pkg manager) or some variable in make.conf
should tell eclasses if I want to see verbose or not.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-19 08:04:30 UTC

It's enabled because it makes build logs more useful for debugging.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-20 16:06:35 UTC

This has already been discussed extensively on the gentoo-dev mailing list and elsewhere. _That_ is the proper venue to bring this discussion, while _this_ is a bug tracker and not intended to be used as a discussion forum.