On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:34:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > >A big difference between Automake projects and building the Linux kernel > >is that building the linux kernel is practically assured to succeed where > >as building Automake projects may fail and require correction by the end > >user (who needs to see what is going on). > > In my scripts, I have an option "--disable-echo", which does the same > thing. Oddly enough (but worth repeating since none of the cons who > respond to this relatively frequent request appear to have noticed that > the error messages give line numbers, and better compilers/tools give > column numbers as well), that's enough for all but a very small fraction > of the time. > > (Perhaps someone should clone automake, naming it "autobuild" or something > like that, and fix this and the other frequently-ignored-requests ;-)
Even easier. Perhaps someone should post a patch for this feature! Bob Rossi
