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Re: [g-b-s Patch] Write and save logfiles for configure/make/check/install


--- "Dr. Volker Zell"  wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Sometimes during package reviews it would be useful to have the logs of the
> original configure/make/check/install stage when the package was build,
> but also for comparison between different versions. The patch below for the
> g-b-s
> saves these logfiles in the src archive during the spkg stage
> 
> For example the texi2html-1.76-2-src.tar archive would include:
> 
> texi2html-1.76.tar.gz
> texi2html-1.76-2.patch
> texi2html-1.76-2.sh
> texi2html-1.76-2-INSTALL.LOG
> texi2html-1.76-2-CHECK.LOG
> texi2html-1.76-2-MAKE.LOG
> texi2html-1.76-2-CONFIGURE.LOG
> 
Interesting idea.  I didn't know you could force configure/make/install to
produce log files.

Wouldn't it be better to produce a separate compressed log file archive,
distinct from the source archive?  The contents of the source archive have been
previously specified.


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