Re: Lower msvc build verbosity level

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

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> On 04/08/2016 06:19 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> could we perhaps lower the verbosity level of the msvc build (in
>> src/tools/msvc/build.pl) from "detailed" to "normal"? In my experiment,
>> this reduces the size of the build log by 96.4 percent (from 12.5 MiB to
>> 438 KiB), or if the log is not redirected, it shortens the build time by 45
>> percent, from just under 6 minutes to 3.
>>
>> The lines that would not be logged anymore are mostly "Task [or Target]
>> so-and-so skipped, due to false condition". All the compiler, linker, etc.
>> command lines are still there.
>>
>> Also, with the "detailed" logs, loading the buildfarm status page for a
>> failure in the Make stage is really painful.
>>
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> Yes! I was just wondering yesterday how to do this. If nobody objects I'm
> going to apply and backpatch this quite soon. This will also have
> beneficial effects on the buildfarm server.
>

+1 for doing that. It seems easy enough to manually turn it on if it turns
out to be necessary to debug some specific issue in the future.

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