Subject: Re: [boost] [build] No output until an action completes?
From: Tom Westerhout (kot.tom97_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-07 08:26:47


On 06/07/2017, Vladimir Prus via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> that is correct. The motivation is that with parallel builds, producing
> output while a command is running results in interleaved output that
> is quite impossible to understand. Therefore, the output is buffered,
> and then written together when the action is finished.

This makes sense.

> This is a valid use case for long running tasks. Could you file an issue?

Submitted an issue: https://github.com/boostorg/build/issues/210

Tom