This makes them more reliable to parse. redo-log can parse each line,
format and print it, then recurse if necessary. This got a little ugly
because I wanted 'redo --raw-logs' to work, which we want to format the
output nicely, but not call redo-log.
(As a result, --raw-logs has a different meaning to redo and
redo-log, which is kinda dumb. I should fix that.)
As an added bonus, redo-log now handles indenting of recursive logs, so
if the build was a -> a/b -> a/b/c, and you look at the log for a/b, it
can still start at the top level indentation.
redo now saves the stderr from every .do script, for every target, into
a file in the .redo directory. That means you can look up the logs
from the most recent build of any target using the new redo-log
command, for example:
redo-log -r all
The default is to show logs non-recursively, that is, it'll show when a
target does redo-ifchange on another target, but it won't recurse into
the logs for the latter target. With -r (recursive), it does. With -u
(unchanged), it does even if redo-ifchange discovered that the target
was already up-to-date; in that case, it prints the logs of the *most
recent* time the target was generated.
With --no-details, redo-log will show only the 'redo' lines, not the
other log messages. For very noisy build systems (like recursing into
a 'make' instance) this can be helpful to get an overview of what
happened, without all the cruft.
You can use the -f (follow) option like tail -f, to follow a build
that's currently in progress until it finishes. redo itself spins up a
copy of redo-log -r -f while it runs, so you can see what's going on.
Still broken in this version:
- No man page or new tests yet.
- ANSI colors don't yet work (unless you use --raw-logs, which gives
the old-style behaviour).
- You can't redirect the output of a sub-redo to a file or a
pipe right now, because redo-log is eating it.
- The regex for matching 'redo' lines in the log is very gross.
Instead, we should put the raw log files in a more machine-parseable
format, and redo-log should turn that into human-readable format.
- redo-log tries to "linearize" the logs, which makes them
comprehensible even for a large parallel build. It recursively shows
log messages for each target in depth-first tree order (by tracing
into a new target every time it sees a 'redo' line). This works
really well, but in some specific cases, the "topmost" redo instance
can get stuck waiting for a jwack token, which makes it look like the
whole build has stalled, when really redo-log is just waiting a long
time for a particular subprocess to be able to continue. We'll need to
add a specific workaround for that.