bug#27170: 26.0.50; Suggestion: Optionally send package build output to log file not *Messages*

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I don't think we'd actually want to write this to a log file, but there
> could be a different log buffer.
>
> To implement that, we'd need to export Vmessages_buffer_name to Lisp
> Land (I think?), and we could then just rebind the variable to something
> else before doing the package builds.
>
> I think exporting the variable to Lisp Land sounds useful, in any case.
>
> Any opinions here?

I agree, and would really appreciate seeing this fixed.

But why not support a log file?  I'm thinking it could occasionaly be
useful.  And shouldn't any package system with self-respect have a log
file? :-)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas