On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:28:24AM -0600, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on moving an existing project to use autotools.  One of the
> issues that I've encountered is that the build process is very verbose.
> Due to factors outside my control, the CPPFLAGS used for compiling contain
> a very long list of include flags.  This results in the compile command
> being about 1100 chars long.  Further, as the libtool invocation and the
> underlying g++ invocation are both printed, the output for compiling each
> object file is 2200 chars.  On an 80-char-wide terminal, that's 28 lines.
>  This makes it *very* easy to miss potential important compiler warnings
> and such in all the noise.
> 
> I'd like be able to reduce the output to just the target of the make rule
> for developers.  Something like:
>   src/control/TerminationCriteria.o
>   src/control/InstructionQueue.o
>   ...
> 
> Is there some way to do this with automake?

Try 'make -s', it's not excatly what you want, but may help.

Bob Rossi


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