From 947209a0286c3fa6cb047fc39eb7b9d8999a377c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:45:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] packer: PACKER_LOG to toggle logging from an env var [GH-3]

---
 packer.go             | 9 +++++++++
 packer/environment.go | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packer.go b/packer.go
index 630b5cf75..d63eeb0e5 100644
--- a/packer.go
+++ b/packer.go
@@ -5,12 +5,21 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mitchellh/packer/packer"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/packer/packer/plugin"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 )
 
 func main() {
+	if os.Getenv("PACKER_LOG") == "" {
+		// If we don't have logging explicitly enabled, then disable it
+		log.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard)
+	} else {
+		// Logging is enabled, make sure it goes to stderr
+		log.SetOutput(os.Stderr)
+	}
+
 	defer plugin.CleanupClients()
 
 	commands := map[string]string {
diff --git a/packer/environment.go b/packer/environment.go
index a6f9694d0..4dd3401e0 100644
--- a/packer/environment.go
+++ b/packer/environment.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package packer
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"log"
 	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ func (e *coreEnvironment) Builder(name string) (b Builder, err error) {
 // Executes a command as if it was typed on the command-line interface.
 // The return value is the exit code of the command.
 func (e *coreEnvironment) Cli(args []string) (result int, err error) {
+	log.Printf("Environment.Cli: %#v\n", args)
+
 	if len(args) == 0 || args[0] == "--help" || args[0] == "-h" {
 		e.printHelp()
 		return 1, nil
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ func (e *coreEnvironment) Cli(args []string) (result int, err error) {
 
 		// If we still don't have a command, show the help.
 		if command == nil {
+			log.Printf("Environment.CLI: command not found: %s\n", args[0])
 			e.printHelp()
 			return 1, nil
 		}