Compiler error messages get buried #39201
Description
ianh@burmese:~/dev/dummy$ flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on Pixel 3 XL in debug mode...
Initializing gradle... 0.6s
Resolving dependencies... 1.4s
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...
Compiler message:
lib/main.dart:4:23: Error: Method not found: 'BoxToRenderFrameAdapter'.
void main() => runApp(BoxToRenderFrameAdapter(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compiler failed on /home/ianh/dev/dummy/lib/main.dart
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Script '/home/ianh/dev/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle' line: 765
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileFlutterBuildDebugArm64'.
> Process 'command '/home/ianh/dev/flutter/bin/flutter'' finished with non-zero exit value 1
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
BUILD FAILED in 6s
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'... 6.5s
Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1
ianh@burmese:~/dev/dummy$
This is way too long (in part because we seem to be adding extra newlines in the output? But also because Gradle.) In fact when I just saw this it was so long that it went off the top of my screen and all I saw was the text from "What went wrong" to the bottom, which is entirely unactionable and useless.
It need not, and should not, be more than the following:
ianh@burmese:~/dev/dummy$ flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on Pixel 3 XL in debug mode...
Initializing gradle... 0.6s
Resolving dependencies... 1.4s
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...
Compiler error:
lib/main.dart:4:23: Error: Method not found: 'BoxToRenderFrameAdapter'.
void main() => runApp(BoxToRenderFrameAdapter(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ianh@burmese:~/dev/dummy$