[PATCH 0/4] Silence more build rules
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Jan 20 14:58:14 GMT 2022
On 19/01/2022 19:12, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-01-19 07:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jan 19 13:15, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> Jon Turney (4):
>>> Cygwin: silence most custom build rules
>>> Cygwin: silence dblatex when building PDFs
>>> Cygwin: silence xsltproc when writing chunked html
>>> Cygwin: silence xsltproc when writing manpages
>>>
>>> winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am | 38 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>> winsup/doc/Makefile.am | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
> Hopefully these are now changed to be the helpful type of build rules
> that output only "CC foo" when commands work and show the complete
> command line and diagnostics when commands err?
>
> Or do we have to now have to rerun with V=1 to see error diagnostics?
This just uses automake's standard way of silencing make [1], so the
latter is correct. You will need to run 'make V=1' to see the command.
Doing the former with full generality using make seems very challenging.
Please submit patches to automake for that! :)
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Automake-Silent-Rules.html
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