On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > tools that usually produce output with colours do not do so when run by > debuild. Examples are the cmake build system (noticeably, colours work fine > when using dpkg-buildpackage) and linitan with the --color option. > As colours are very useful to quicker see what's going on, it's desirable for > debuild not to loose that information.
That's likely because they're not being run with a controlling tty. It's pretty common for tools that used colored output to only do so when isatty(3) returns 1. Providing a pty for the build process (for other reasons) is something that has been requested on IRC, too. It's something we can look into. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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