Re: [Ltib] [patch] Better logfile handling

[Svein Seldal]

Stuart Hughes wrote:
> The reason is that if a new user who knows nothing about LTIB tries to 
> install and fails, by default I can say "send me host_config.log" and I 
> know they'll have it, I don't have to explain about tee.  Most of the 
> support issue come from installations on distributions I have never 
> tried (many have quirks).

Yes. I also think the host_config.log is important for support reasons 
-- it has to be enabled per default.

> I guess it would be possible to add a --logfile option for normal 
> builds, but given tee is simple to use it hasn't been a high priority.

tee does't work very well when doing menuconfig's. You get a lot of 
escape codes in the log, don't you? So doing a configure and build 
process in one (like you do with running ./ltib without any options) 
will garble the tee log. That's why it would have been nice to have a 
target_config.log or similar.

The best workflow would then be to do a 0) "ltib --hostcf" (and get 
host_config.log)   1) "ltib -m config"  2) "ltib |tee xxx", right?. 
That's doable of course.


- Svein