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Re: make debugging output
> By default, make(1)'s debugging output goes to stdout. Would it be OK
> to change the default to go to stderr?
I personally fully agree with this proposal.
> My main concern is that debugging output interferes with processes that
> attempt to parse the output from make(1). For example, any process that
> does something like
> result="$( make print-result )"
Exactly this happened to my distbb bulk builds about week ago.
Because of error sent to stdout I've got weird error output.
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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.
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