Improve error messages about bin-build HOT 11 CLOSED

👍 How would an error message look like?

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Something along these lines:

[text (blablabla, make sure the following dependencies are installed:]

  dep1
  dep2

[stack trace]

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blablabla isn't very useful though.

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well, it's what i'm going with.

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At the very least, it would be very useful for binbuild to explain in a log message which command failed and what was CWD of the command so you can find the logs.

e.g. ./configure ...

Lets say that the system doesn't have a necessary library installed, how would I find out which library to install?

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Sorry, totally forgot about this. I'll try fix something asap.

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In the meantime, can you help me out with where to find the logs for the commands that run? I tried looking in npmcache, and the tmpdir. Are they getting nuked after npm exits?

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Sorry, forgot to say Thanks for looking into it! I appreciate the help and the quick response.

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The commands aren't logged currently. Look at the code in the modules instead.

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That may be the case, but for instance, running ./configure will produce a config.log file somewhere in the build directory or the source directory. What is the current working directory when the commands are run?

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It's a temp directory so it may vary.

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