I must not abbreviate this time... On 170228-20:07-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> writes: > > > On 170226-09:42-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > ... > >> > >> > Example at the beginning: [32;01m * > >> > Example from the end: * > >> > > >> > Output to the terminal these would show the text in different colours, > >> > but the output was redirected to a textfile or mishandled in a > >> > copy-paste operation (not sure if screen or tmux does this?). > >> > > >> > Running emerge with `--color n` would have made this log much more > >> > readable. Its size already makes it hard to search. > >> > >> Yes, and I am sorry about that, its just that I could not discern what > >> parts were important. Still I should have posted only the last > >> 400-500 lines. > >> > >> Just so you know... I did try that. [--color n] The resulting log > >> looked exactly the same. ... > > > > This is hard to believe. I just tried, and either: > > > > --color n > > > > or: > > > > --color=n > > > > added to the emerge line, worked. > > > > Are you looking at the Terminal output? If so that is not what I > posted. > > I did mention that yes `--color n' kills the color in terminal output. > > Read the whole paragraph you quote 1 sentence from above. > > This is the end of that para: > > ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don't expect > anyone would have noticed the comment... but it does seem a bit off > that I see no differernce here. That is, no difference in the actual > log emerge creates. I do see the difference in the terminal output."
I see now what you mean (and meant, previously)! > But as I mentioned what I posted was not the terminal output but the > actual log that emerge creates for you.. and points you to when a > failure occurs. > > I just checked it again and I know that is what happens. That is, > setting `--color n' kills the color ouput at the terminal however the > `build.log' still contains all the color sequences. > > I'm already viewed dimly for posting so much junk so rather than post > samples of both ... I'll leave it for you to try yourself. No, you're not. Because you corrected your mistake. (Very busy... got to go.) Regards! -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia https://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
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