release/dist/cli: add --verbose to print subcommand output

By default, cmd/dist only prints the output of failed commands.
With this, you can turn all the noisy output back on.

Updates tailscale/corp#9045

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>

release/dist/cli/cli.go

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ func CLI(getTargets func() ([]dist.Target, error)) *ffcli.Command {
 				FlagSet: (func() *flag.FlagSet {
 					fs := flag.NewFlagSet("build", flag.ExitOnError)
 					fs.StringVar(&buildArgs.manifest, "manifest", "", "manifest file to write")
+					fs.BoolVar(&buildArgs.verbose, "verbose", false, "verbose logging")
 					return fs
 				})(),
 				LongHelp: strings.TrimSpace(`
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ func runList(ctx context.Context, filters []string, targets []dist.Target) error
 
 var buildArgs struct {
 	manifest string
+	verbose  bool
 }
 
 func runBuild(ctx context.Context, filters []string, targets []dist.Target) error {
@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ func runBuild(ctx context.Context, filters []string, targets []dist.Target) erro
 		return fmt.Errorf("creating build context: %w", err)
 	}
 	defer b.Close()
+	b.Verbose = buildArgs.verbose
 
 	out, err := b.Build(tgts)
 	if err != nil {

release/dist/dist.go

@@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ type Target interface {
 type Build struct {
 	// Repo is a path to the root Go module for the build.
 	Repo string
-	// Tmp is a temporary directory that gets deleted when the Builder is closed.
-	Tmp string
 	// Out is where build artifacts are written.
 	Out string
+	// Verbose is whether to print all command output, rather than just failed
+	// commands.
+	Verbose bool
+
+	// Tmp is a temporary directory that gets deleted when the Builder is closed.
+	Tmp string
 	// Go is the path to the Go binary to use for building.
 	Go string
 	// Version is the version info of the build.
@@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ func (b *Build) BuildGoBinary(path string, env map[string]string) (string, error
 		sort.Strings(envStrs)
 		log.Printf("Building %s (with env %s)", path, strings.Join(envStrs, " "))
 		buildDir := b.TmpDir()
-		cmd := b.Command(b.Repo, b.Go, "build", "-o", buildDir, path)
+		cmd := b.Command(b.Repo, b.Go, "build", "-v", "-o", buildDir, path)
 		for k, v := range env {
 			cmd.Cmd.Env = append(cmd.Cmd.Env, k+"="+v)
 		}
@@ -218,8 +222,13 @@ func (b *Build) Command(dir, cmd string, args ...string) *Command {
 	ret := &Command{
 		Cmd: exec.Command(cmd, args...),
 	}
-	ret.Cmd.Stdout = &ret.Output
+	if b.Verbose {
-	ret.Cmd.Stderr = &ret.Output
+		ret.Cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
+		ret.Cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
+	} else {
+		ret.Cmd.Stdout = &ret.Output
+		ret.Cmd.Stderr = &ret.Output
+	}
 	// dist always wants to use gocross if any Go is involved.
 	ret.Cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "TS_USE_GOCROSS=1")
 	ret.Cmd.Dir = dir