On 01/23/2011 17:07, Mark Johnston wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:00:52PM -0600, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good Day,
I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering
how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs,
ebook for example, emits messages in various colors. How is that
done? Where does one find what the various colors are supposed to
signify? Or, is it just because it's more appealing?
Thank You,
Michael
I'm not sure about ebook specifically, but there's a wrapper for gcc called
colorgcc which colorizes the diagnostics and errors that gcc emits. The idea is
that one can just do something like "CC=colorgcc make" when building.
I'm sure there are other programs out there that do something similar,
but colorgcc is the most common I think. Apparently there are similar
wrappers for make and diff as well.
-Mark
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Thank You,
I'll look up the man pages for colorgcc and see if it is installed on my
system. This explains a lot.
Michael
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