On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: >> Not valid. Use "makepkg -L" to log the entire build process. In the >> future, there will be a check() function, so you will then get separate logs >> for build(), check() and package(). > > It would do what I require to log the entire build... > > This is not the future, I am still stuck in "current time" > > make check is valid. > I don't want to pollute the check log file with the build information. > All I want to pick through is the testing info. > On the example the build and check logs are small, care to look at the check > log for glibc? > Hint it is over 7800 lines just for the check, good luck looking at that > plus the entire build in one file. Why is this so snarky? makepkg -L was created for exactly this reason. If the log is large, most editors have a "search" function. Creating a log in $startdir is just duplicating effort, if you ask me. makepkg can already do this.