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re: debugging early failure of build.sh (in rebuilding nbmake)
>
> I'm trying a crossbuild of NetBSD-current/amd64 on a NetBSD 6.0/i386 host,
> and get:
>
> ...
> ===> Bootstrapping nbmake
> checking for sh... /bin/sh
> checking for gcc... cc
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables
> ERROR: Configure of nbmake failed
> *** BUILD ABORTED ***
>
> Not very useful. Digging and chopping to get at config.log (and ignoring
> what the error for this was, for a second), I wonder if we should print
> the nbmake configure's config.log if we detect an error.
>
> The patch below does this for me. Any comments?
config.log can be pretty large, and the useful parts are usually
at around the 60% mark of the file. dumping the whole thing the
users terminal seems overly excessive to me, but perhaps printing
the path to the file with a suggestion on what to look for would
be good enough.
.mrg.
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