On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@singh.im> writes: > > I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, > > specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing to be done for `all' " > > messages, since they don't add much value, and just ad to the clutter. > > Why don't you just use "make -s" if you don't want to see that? > The example output you show is not much less verbose than before. > I have a shell function that now adds --no-print-directory to my make command. This patch combined with that switch makes the output really clean (at least from my perspective). Since the use of a command-line switch can be easily left to personal choice, I am not proposing to add that or its makefile-equivalent. But modifying the makefiles to suppress noise is not that everyone can be expected to do, and do it right. > I'm pretty suspicious of cute changes like this to the makefiles. > They too often have unexpected side-effects. (I'm still pissed off > about having to manually remove objfiles.txt to get it to rebuild a .o > file, for instance.) > You mean the --enable-depend switch to ./configure is not sufficient to force a rebuild on changed source code! With this switch, I have always seen my builds do the right thing, whether I modify a .c file or a .h. I personally have never been forced to remove objfiles.txt to solve a build/make issue. (I primarily use VPATH builds, BTW). Best regards, -- Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/ EDB www.EnterpriseDB.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>
