Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-05-25 Thread Christopher S Morrison
Howdy Ralf, I so sometimes instruct them to do that, usually when helping people interactively, and I get mixed results. Some get it right and I get a condensed log, some actually don't and I end up spending even more time trying to figure out what went wrong on their end (typos, misunderstand

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Sean, * Christopher Sean Morrison wrote on Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:26:39PM CEST: > > Usually, the problem from a purely practical standpoint is that the > error is rarely at the very end, it's somewhere probably in the last > 50-200 lines or so of the output depending on the situation. So

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-05-21 Thread Brendon Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for that response. I agree fully with your evaluation of the problem at hand with overly verbose log files. I was unaware of that application you mentioned, I may have a look for it later. Thanks again. Due to various reasons, I have decided t

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-05-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:29:34 +1000 From: Brendon Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Reducing verbosity of automake To: automake@gnu.org, Brendon Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All patches I've seen add quite a bit of bloat to Makefile.in's, for dubious value (remember th

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Brendon Costa wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:29:34PM CEST: > > I can imagine that a makefile only based solution would add a lot of > bloat to the Makefile.in files. There is another solution, but it > requires a script that behaves like a layer between make and any system > command it executes

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Korb
Brendon Costa wrote: Seems pretty reasonable to me, but I'd suggest a little tweak: #! /bin/sh # DESCRIPTION=$1 COMMAND=$2 shift shift echo $DESCRIPTION < $COMMAND $* > /dev/null --- > output=`$COMMAND ${1+"$@"}` RESULT=$? if test $RESULT -ne 0; then >exec 1>&2 echo "Command fail

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread Brendon Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm afraid that I misinterpreted what the original poster wanted to be > a way of tidying output on a single development system, and not for all > variations of platforms where the build process would be run. The filter > would be a quick way of scra

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread Duncan Gibson
I wrote: > > It might be a nice feature to add this to the autotools, but is it > > really necessary? Why not follow the unix philosophy and write your > > own filter (using sed, python, perl, whatever) that reduces the > > verbose lines you don't want into something more managable? [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread ibr
Hello all, On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:13:01AM +0200, Duncan Gibson wrote: > > C++ ./out/netbsd/debug/src/libs/System/unix/UnixUtils.o > > C++ ./out/netbsd/debug/src/libs/System/unix/Utils.o > > Archive ./out/netbsd/debug/src/libs/libADS_System.a > > Ranlib ./out/netbsd/debug/src/libs/libADS_System

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-25 Thread Duncan Gibson
Brendon Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > When compiling a project using: autoconf/automake/libtool, there is just > too much data being output to the screen when i run the make command. In > the jam system i am porting over if I was to issue the jam command, it > would print messages like:

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-24 Thread Brendon Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well i had a small look at the proposal i made last night, and it seems that it is not possible to achieve what i was saying entirely from autoconf by setting the command variables to be prefixed with the script command. Reasons include: 1) It

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-24 Thread Brendon Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ I assume you want Cc:s to both addresses? ] Yep. Thanks. By the way. Thanks for the reply. I couldn't believe it was so fast :-) > All patches I've seen add quite a bit of bloat to Makefile.in's, for > dubious value (reme

Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ I assume you want Cc:s to both addresses? ] Hi Brendon, * Brendon Costa wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:20:15PM CEST: > > When compiling a project using: autoconf/automake/libtool, there is just > too much data being output to the screen when i run the make command. make -s or even mak

Reducing verbosity of automake

2006-04-24 Thread Brendon Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have just recently started using automake and have been attempting to port over a system that uses jam to now use automake. While doing this i have come across a feature i seem unable to find within automake. I have searched the mail