Where is a log of a failed build?

captobvious

captobvious

I have been attempting to build the openjdk6 port for the past 3 days and it fails gloriously each time; but besides that, I cannot see all the errors that occur at the point where it fails. How do you make a log of the build process or where is the log for the build process? I'm using the default /bin/sh on a clean 8.1-STABLE-2010-10, amd64. thanks!
 
When the build fails, parts of it is done. Presume you are in the directory of the port.
Code: 
 make build | tee -a build_fail.txt
might work, it will resume the undone parts and the errors and non-errors may all write into that .txt file. (Note... I've never tried this on a /java/ port. So a very slight chance something is nonstandard in some of those builds). Another caution, that file can be very large if you start the build from the very beginning. One can even cntl-c the build each few hours and restart it to a new file AFAIK.
 
hrm didnt work as expected; while the log contained multiple

Code: 
*** Error code 1

The actually errors on the screen were not in the log; I see 2 files missing,npapi.h and npupp.h but I assume it was during the javac part of the build process and not the make. ;(
 
The problem is that some error messages are sent to stderr and that pipeline catches only stdout, try this:

# make build 2>&1 | tee -a build_fail.txt
 
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