On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:15:12PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2008, 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. > > i think we're focusing on the "big" offenders here. libtool is certainly > much > more prevalent than any other tool cited here when combined with autotools. > taking that into consideration, the fact that libtool outputs status > information that amounts pretty closely (almost exactly) to what make itself > would output, the idea of having it be autosilenced according to -s is a > common (and logical) expectation for people. i'm not saying this is grounds > for "this must be done!", just putting it out there.
Exactly, I would think most people would not expect the current behavior. I would say "Hey, I told make to be quit, but it's not." Ingorance is bliss. Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
