We'd like to control what information our customers see on
stdout when
they run our product's installer (bjam) at their sites.
For example, when we deliver them software, we setup bjam to
build in a
bootstrapping mode to build as much of our code base as it
can. The
problem is that we have about 100 libraries to build
containing some
30000 source files, about 50 executables to link and lots of
tests to
run sprinkled throughout the build process. The amount of
information
output to stdout by bjam is overwhelming to our customers
and is really
only useful to us. That's why we'd like all the normal
bjam output
redirected to a file that, ideally, we can name with a
property in the
Jamroot.
Instead of the detailed bjam output to stdout, we'd rather
have a
summary line output for each lib, exe and test target as it
is built
and run. This summary information would be much more
manageable for
our customers and, because the summary line is output as the
target is
built, it would provide temporal feedback to the customer
about the
build/run time required for each target. If our code
doesn't compile
cleanly or a test fails, we'd like the summary to count the
number of
warnings and errors (or the number of files generating these
messages)
and output this information to the summary line as well.
Naturally, if
the customer has build or test problems, we could have them
send us the
summary and detailed output for us to look at.
A representative summary line for three library targets.
Building netcdf 3.6.0, 3 warnings, 0 errors finished.
Building exodus 4.15, 1 warnings, 0 errors finished.
Building nemesis 3.03, 7 warnings, 2 errors not finished.
Has anyone done something like this or know how to? I'm
willing to do
it but I don't know how to get a count of the compile
warnings and
errors for starters, much less where I'd have to hook the
build process
to output this following completion of each target. (The
temporal
feedback is important to us so we'd like to output the
"Building .."
just prior to building the target and output the summary
just following
it's completion.)
Any ideas?
-- Noel
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