Re: Lower msvc build verbosity level

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:47 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 04/08/2016 12:24 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote:
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>> * Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> +several. Grepping for compiler warnings, for example, is really painful
>>> right now on any MSVC critter. I've resorted to grepping for "warning
>>> C",
>>> which skips the noise messages, but I'm never sure if I'm missing
>>> something.
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>> You miss all diagnostics from other tools than the compiler, for one
>> thing.
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>> There is a simple solution to that, however. MSBuild and VCBuild repeat
>> all warnings and errors produced during the build at the bottom of the log.
>> I just checked on mastodon (VS 2005, the oldest), and it does that already.
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>> This depends on the whole build being done using a single solution file
>> that contains all the individual projects, but there is no reason to assume
>> we will start building individual projects instead, I assume.
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> Yeah, what is more on the whole this is going to be far more beneficial,
> because stuff just gets lost badly in the noise. I have committed the
> change.

Thanks a lot! This is making my day, and I suspect many others are to come.
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Michael