# Suggestion: forcing Travis CI to render verbose build output

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** build, travis\
**Created:** [September 8, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716 "2018-09-08T21:15:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716/1 "2018-09-08T21:15:06Z")

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Pkg3 currently directs all output from the `Pkg.build()` process to a log file. That’s generally nice, as it keeps the terminal from filling up with tens of thousands of lines of autotools output, but it’s a hassle on Travis CI, where it results in builds being terminated early (because they don’t output anything for \> 10 minutes) and makes build issues harder to debug.

There’s an open issue here: [https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/665](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/665) so I’m sure this will get fixed eventually, but I thought I’d post a useful workaround of my own (based on the suggestions from [https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/665#issuecomment-416904984](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/665#issuecomment-416904984) ).

If you want the full build log to be printed in your Travis CI build, just add the following to your `.travis.yml`:

```julia
before_script:
  # Every 30 seconds, look for the build log file. If it exists, then
  # start watching its contents and printing them to stdout as they
  # change. This has two effects:
  # 1. it avoids Travis timing out because the build outputs nothing
  # 2. it makes it more obvious what part of the build, if any, gets stuck
  - while sleep 30; do tail ~/build/JuliaPackaging/CMake.jl/deps/build.log -f ; done &

```

(replacing `JuliaPackaging/CMake.jl` with your particular repo).

I’m also open to suggestions if people have ways to make this workaround even better.

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**Author:** ![CiaranOMara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ciaranomara/32/2589_2.png) [@CiaranOMara](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/CiaranOMara)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716/2 "2020-02-07T08:19:51Z")

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Did you make any progress on this?

I have a similar issue where I would like to see some feedback during builds that take a long time. I was wondering whether there is a way to enable verbose from within build.jl?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716/3 "2020-02-07T13:14:27Z")

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Verbosity of `Pkg.build` is default since Julia 1.0: [https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/1615](https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/1615).