Pkg.jl: Pkg.build is too silent for travis CI

[thofma]

I noticed that travis was killing our build since Pkg.build is now silent and took more than 10 minutes.

I agree that dumping everying on stdout is not pretty and I really like the build.log. On the other hand, not printing anything for minutes is also bad user experience and leads to the travis problems. Not sure what the best solution is.

[fredrikekre]

Maybe we can have pkg> build --verbose Foo / Pkg.build("Foo", verbose=true)?

[thofma]

I had the same idea, but I don't know how to redirect the output to both stdout and build.log using pipeline.

[andreasnoack]

I could most likely need something similar for Elemental.jl.

[thofma]

In case you need something now, you can have a look at https://github.com/Nemocas/Nemo.jl/raw/master/.travis.yml
I could not make travis_wait work.

[rdeits]

Here's a slightly fancier workaround: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716

[fingolfin]

It would be really nice to have a verbose option.