How can I get more detailed error information in Bootstrap's make?

Question

I'm new to using LESS, and to Bootstrap, and I'm building a site for fun. When I run make in my bootstrap directory, if I screwed something up in my variables.less file I get a totally useless error message:

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Building Bootstrap...
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Running JSHint on javascript...             ✔ Done

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/less/lib/less/parser.js:385
                        throw new(LessError)(e, env);

[object Object]
make: *** [build] Error 1

How can I get some line numbers or something? It wasn't too bad to figure out what was going on in this case (I misused lighten(@color, 15%)) but if I start hacking the design quite a bit as desired I feel like I'm going to run in to trouble, being a LESS newb and all.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

I had exactly the same issues and I ran lessc directly (as merv suggested). I immediately had a context-sensitive error that I could deal with. Thanks, merv