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RFE: Print the build log(s) on package build failure
When a package build fails vcpkg tells you to look at a log file whose location is printed. This is unfriendly/annoying/infuriating when it happens during a CI run, depending on how easy it is to edit the workflow to dump the log and rerun the CI, how long it takes to get to the point of failure and whether you first need to learn how to get a step to run after a build failure.
Please print the relevant logs after a build failure. You could hide this behind an option if you like, see ctest's --output-on-failure. If so, it must be possible to set this option even when not directly invoking vcpkg, as happens when using manifest mode in a CMake build.
It already does that for common ci's (https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-tool/blob/734ea2bccce8981eff45308cdf5a811790b576b3/src/vcpkg/commands.build.cpp#L1978) Which ci are you using?
Which ci are you using?
GitHub Actions. In the case where I modified the CI to print the log of the failing build, I was using an Ubuntu runner.
So if you are using the latest vcpkg version the log should already be there.