On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote on 2010/01/30 00:34:17: > > First off, `make -s' is both POSIX and portable. > > Conceptually, `make -s' has nothing to do with the > > `silent-rules' option that recent > > Exactly, and I am asking for autotools/libtool not to output > anything that isn't a real warning/error when when -s is passed to make. > After all, it is custom that stderr is reserved for errors/warnings only.
BTW, isn't it even common to not print debug / trace / notice messages /at all/ by default? I thought there was some "be quite on execution but verbose on error" principle, but with google I cannot find it anymore... I think make is an exception here. Many tools don't tell anything in positive case (gcc, ld, install...). BTW, is there a way (except -n) to make GNU Make show commands starting with '@'? Not even make -d shows them, which IMHO is not very convenient... oki, Steffen
