Re: dealing with verbose programs (was: Re: new module 'calloc-posix')

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
> A wild thought: what if gnulib-tool saved its output during a run, and
> then presented a *diff* of the new output and the old output?  I at
> least would find that considerably more readable.
> 
> (Along with a mention of the file where the full output can be found, of
> course.)

I'd love to have the same feature for "configure" and "make" runs.
It could be a general-purpose utility, taking a command line as argument,
like 'time' and 'nice' are.

Bruno