On 16 Dec 2013, at 19:46, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_iet.unipi.it> wrote: > The following is a proof-of-concept patch to make system builds > less chatty. > > It also has the nice side effect of showing more clearly > which rules are used during the build and possibly help > debugging the share/mk files and the individual Makefiles. > > The logic is the following: > the environment/make variable SILENT (or any other name we may want > to use; linux defaults to quiet mode and uses V=1 to be as verbose > as we are), I cannot imagine I am the only one that dislikes Linux's approach of not showing exactly what it is doing, so I have no objection, as long as it is not the default. (I really hate having to hunt around for the magic option to enable verbose output if I want to know how a program is compiled...) Also, if you want "silent" builds, you should use make -s instead. That is much less chatty than (IMHO) useless "CC foo", "LD bar" messages. In any case, if anything like this is implemented, I would really prefer something like CMake does, e.g. give you a percentage counter that provides some information about how 'far' the build is progressing. -Dimitry
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