Hi, I'm fond of `make -s'. It doesn't work too well with the automake-generated Makefile on http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/Makefile.am that I contribute to. In hand-written Makefiles in the past, I've checked MAKEFLAGS against *s* to decide whether to echo, etc. IIRC.
I find that on a `make -s all check distcheck' the long list of mkdir and install commands explicitly echo'd, a stream of PASS, and the repeating of such as the distcheck target goes to work means I tend to keep an eye on the final few lines of output as a success indicator for the whole build. This isn't good as things like compiler warnings, etc., are missed as they're buried in the noise. (Yes, I know of -Werror, but that only covers one specific point.) Ideally, I'd like to only see SKIP, as it could be considered a warning, and FAIL from make's work, not the creation of the directory trees or the PASSes. I don't think that's possible today? Can consideration be given to adding it. It's so nice to do `make -s', wait a bit, and have no output on success. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
