On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:58:09PM CET: > > On Thursday 10 January 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > > > What I meant was: even with > > > make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent > > > > > > there will be some leftover output done by libtool. If somebody wants > > > to fix that, be invited to provide a (complete) patch (best including > > > testsuite amend; the stresstest in Libtool HEAD would probably come in > > > handy). > > > > > > If you want all tools silenced which are called by make, then I suggest > > > to simply use > > > make >/dev/null || make > > > > well, we're after the automatic output going away, not intended output. > > So what's intended output? That by make, libtool is apparently not. > What about makeinfo, texi2dvi, dvips? autoconf/aclocal/automake reruns, > configure reruns? Are you suggesting each of them parse $MAKEFLAGS and > go silent with that, too? > > libtool need not be invoked by make alone. There are multitudinous > other build systems, some of which call libtool at times. Should > libtool parse their $TOOLFLAGS too? > > I merely think that MAKEFLAGS is for make, and other flags should be for > other programs. And hey, that's just my personal opinion, not cast in > stone or anything; but I would like to be shown why another choice is > better.
Well, I might be over simplifying things because I don't understand the big picture. When I type 'make -s' I assume that the compiler commands that make kicks off will not be sent to stdout/stderr. I do expect that if the user has some stuff in the Makefile that prints to stdout/stderr that it would show up there. Now, before I started using libtool and I only used automake, when I typed 'make -s' I didn't see any g++ or linker commands. After I added libtool, some g++ commands started to appear. I thought it would seem natural that the -s to the Makefile would be supported by the libtool generated Makefile code. It was just my "This is how things should intuitively work" reaction. Thanks, Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
