On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> Splitting away from the main GCC 6.3.0 thread, because this is a
> tangential issue. The GCC 6.3.0 build output is cutsie/wootsie with
> lots of colour... "because teh shiney". Unfortunately, it absolutely
> sucks for reading build logs giving stuff like...
>
> ^[[01m^[[Kicesh.cc:249:1:^[[m^[[K ^[[01;31m^[[Kerror: ^[[m^[[Knarrowing
> conversion of '^[[01m^[[K4294967295ul^[[m^[[K' from '^[[01m^[[Klong unsigned
> int^[[m^[[K' to '^[[01m^[[Klong int^[[m^[[K' inside { }
> [^[[01;31m^[[K-Wnarrowing^[[m^[[K]
> ^[[01;31m^[[K}^[[m^[[K;
> ^[[01;31m^[[K^^[[m^[[K
> ^[[01m^[[Kicesh.cc:261:1:^[[m^[[K ^[[01;31m^[[Kerror: ^[[m^[[Knarrowing
> conversion of '^[[01m^[[K4294967295ul^[[m^[[K' from '^[[01m^[[Klong unsigned
> int^[[m^[[K' to '^[[01m^[[Klong int^[[m^[[K' inside { }
> [^[[01;31m^[[K-Wnarrowing^[[m^[[K]
> ^[[01;31m^[[K}^[[m^[[K;
> ^[[01;31m^[[K^^[[m^[[K
>
> I tried "emerge --color=n icewm", but that doesn't help. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>
The option is "-fdiagnostics-color=never" or "-fno-diagnostics-color".
You can also set the environment variable GCC_COLORS to the empty
string. The latter is probably more useful in the context of portage.
