Re: libtool module output

Adriaan de Groot <adridg-FlD2LfDziEhmR6Xm/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 14:20, you wrote:
> Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > attached one-liner patch stops aap from printing a cryptic -- bad
> > version -- message when there is a system-wide installed libtool
> > that's an old version (as in the case of freebsd ports).
>
> So you don't want to see the message on the terminal.  But it would
> still be useful to know why Aap rejected this libtool.

The issue here is that Aap rejects one libtool but accepts another - for which 
it doesn't produce a positive message. This can lead to weird situations 
like:

$ aap
libtool - bad version
$

so is that a fatal error, or did Aap just complain and have nothing to build? 
For this particular case, I think Aap should either:

1) complain about old versions in a sensible fashion and make a positive 
statement when it gets a good version _or_

2) not complain or make positive comments, except maybe in the log


> Should we add a ":log" command, that works like ":print" but only writes
> the message in AAPDIR/log?  I think that's a good idea.

Can't you use @msg_extra(_("Stuff")) for the same purpose? I think :log would 
mostly be useful in modules, where you can expect a little Puython trickery. 


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pub  1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <[email protected]>
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