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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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