Hi,

> Quite a few of the packages are redirecting compiler messages
> to /dev/null. I fail to understand why anyone would want to have such a
> stupid default. Having just converted my desktop from i386 to alpha I am
> more than ever interested in what the compiler might have to say about
> the software I am running..
> 
> Is there some easy way to change this behaviour?

Change build infrastructure of such packages, Pkgsrc is not the culprit.
I can only agree hiding compiler messages is counterproductive, at the
least...

	Regards,
		-- Jachym Holecek