Re: Lower msvc build verbosity level

On 04/08/2016 12:24 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote:
> * Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> +several.  Grepping for compiler warnings, for example, is really 
>> painful
>> right now on any MSVC critter.  I've resorted to grepping for 
>> "warning C",
>> which skips the noise messages, but I'm never sure if I'm missing
>> something.
>
> You miss all diagnostics from other tools than the compiler, for one 
> thing.
>
> There is a simple solution to that, however. MSBuild and VCBuild 
> repeat all warnings and errors produced during the build at the bottom 
> of the log. I just checked on mastodon (VS 2005, the oldest), and it 
> does that already.
>
> This depends on the whole build being done using a single solution 
> file that contains all the individual projects, but there is no reason 
> to assume we will start building individual projects instead, I assume.
>

Yeah, what is more on the whole this is going to be far more beneficial, 
because stuff just gets lost badly in the noise. I have committed the 
change.

cheers

andrew