Re: shouldn't discard all output

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 14, 2001, Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is reasonable to assume that the second run should succeed if the first
> did.  However, the point can be made that *if* it fails, the error might
> indicate a serious problem (disk full, hardware problem, build chain
> corruption), and that discarding this error is counter-productive.[1]

Agreed.  I'd be inclined to accept a patch that saved the output of
both runs somewhere, and output the second only if it differed from
the first (perhaps presenting only the differences?)

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