[cmake-developers] [PATCH] stage/compact-status-log

[Brad King]

On 09/24/2014 08:02 AM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
> cmThread utility class

Introducing threads is exactly the "too much infrastructure"
to which I was referring in my previous response.  I'm sorry
to reject all the effort you put into the threads approach so
far, but I did say this earlier.

> cmake emits simply too much (redundant) information.

IIRC the original reason for having separate

       -- Looking for iconv.h
       -- Looking for iconv.h - Found

lines is that the first one prints what is about to be
done in case something happens (e.g. crash) that prevents
the second output from ever showing up.  That helps a lot
in tracking down the problem.  If another thread buffers
the first message then it might not show up at all.  The
terminal escape codes approach does not have that problem.

The same de-dup you do in the threaded filter could be done
with a shell alias that pipes 'cmake' output through a sed
script or something to de-dup it.  That would handle local
interactive terminal use of cmake without any upstream
changes.

-Brad