Bug #18580 Updated: ./configure's log doesn't store stderr, so what's the point?

ID: 18580 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: ceo@l-i-e.com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Un*x PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Sorry, but this is not possible. After all, we are developing PHP not autoconf here..better ask them autoconf people for this kind of feature? And reading config.log is not really that hard. If test succeeds, there are no error lines below it..if it doesn't succeed, there is some messages telling why the test failed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-25 20:03:08] ceo@l-i-e.com I know all y'all geeks can just read config.cache, but for us mere mortals who can't quite grok that, config.log would be *MUCH* more useful if it also contained stderr output, so that instead of seeing: Checking for blahblah... We'd see Checking for blahblah... No And maybe even some of the error messages that tell us why we didn't get no blahblah even though we asked for it. I find myself doing: ./configure ... 2&>1 config.output & all the time, but I gotta figure you guys could just do that automatically so config.log has all that. Apologies if this made it into 4.2.2 which I ain't got yet. (I'm behind a firewall and nobody but can surf to me anyway, so it's not a critical upgrade just ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18580&edit=1