I generally agree that logging is something I want to tune dynamically. Logging 
is one of the few things I prefer as an environment variable.

As a compromise though perhaps a configure option to adjust the default logging 
level might work. Still overridable via LOG but with a configurable default.

The help documentation could/should also be improved to document "Environment 
variables which can effect configuration" and "Environment variables which can 
effect build". These do need to be described separately even if there are some 
which apply to both.

Mike


On Mar 13 2013, at 12:06 , Dalibor Topic wrote:

> On 3/13/13 7:35 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> I still think it should be a configure option, which is the first place I 
>> looked.
> 
> You'd usually use it if something interesting happens, like a build failure, 
> and 
> it's a you're 'not sure how it could have come to this' situation, so in that 
> case, 
> having to re-run configure, and potentially the whole build again seems like 
> a worse
> option then just adding a variable to the make run as you need it (or not).
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
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