Save the stderr from the dry MSVC make to a well named file for later review. Use 'msvc-build-makedryerrors.txt' which should be obvious as to its source, and is not ignored by 'git status'. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> --- contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) mode change 100755 => 100644 contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl b/contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl old mode 100755 new mode 100644 index e8aa8ea..7eba870 --- a/contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl @@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ Running GNU Make to figure out build structure... EOM # Pipe a make --dry-run into a variable, if not already loaded from file -@makedry = `cd $git_dir && make -n MSVC=1 NO_PERL=1 V=1 2>/dev/null` if !@makedry; +# Capture the make dry stderr to file for review (will be empty for a release build). + +my $ErrsFile = "msvc-build-makedryerrors.txt"; +@makedry = `cd $git_dir && make -n MSVC=1 NO_PERL=1 V=1 2>$ErrsFile` if !@makedry; # Parse the make output into usable info parseMakeOutput(); -- 2.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html