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[FEAT] - if `configure` fails, show config.log

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start at the ./configure invocation and inspect how its output and failure status are handled. Reproduce a configure failure and verify that the contents of config.log are displayed afterward.

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Description

feature
Describe the Problem

the stdout for ./configure is suppressed, making it hard to troubleshoot errors

Describe the Solution

show the contents of config.log if configure fails

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Shell
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Merged PRs (30d)
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