According to your .SILENT problem: Do you know the @ functionality?
See here: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Echoing.html
You can use it before a command so the command will not be printed.
Here an example of a Makefile
hello: hello1.c
gcc hello1.c -o hello
hello_d: hello1.c
@gcc hello1.c -o hello_d -g
"make hello_d" will not give you any output, but "make hello" will.
2017-01-09 20:39 GMT+01:00 Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org>:
> I'm using make to run a test suite and thus have a bunch of intermediate
> test executables. Those take up a lot of space when using static
> linking (there are many ways around this, but I'm trying to integrate
> with an existing system at this time) and thus blow some users' quotas
> if they all exist at once. Make will delete them automatically when I
> mark them .INTERMEDIATE, but it only removes intermediates as the final
> step, not as soon as the intermediate is no longer needed. Is there a
> way, short of recursive make, to eagerly delete the intermediates?
>
> Also, when there are many intermediates, the output is very loud. Is
> there a way to silence it without silencing everything? My experiments
> with .SILENT have been unsuccessful.
>
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