RE: silent installs

2010-02-03 Thread William Tracy (wtracy)
> Probably no curtains, but they do have windshield wiper to clear away the cruft. The light rail trolleys around where I live also have pull-down sun shades to protect the driver from glare. :-) /me will stop now --- William Tracy

Re: silent installs

2010-02-03 Thread William Pursell
John Calcote wrote: > On 1/29/2010 10:17 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn >>> Regarding silent installs: Why do passenger trains have windows? >> Why do passenger train windows have curtains? > Okay - I can't help

Re: silent installs

2010-02-02 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/30 00:34:17: > > First off, `make -s' is both POSIX and portable. > > Conceptually, `make -s' has nothing to do with the > > `silent-rules' option that recent > > Exactly, and I am asking for autotools/li

Re: silent installs

2010-02-02 Thread Steffen Dettmer
* John Calcote wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 14:22 -0700: > On 1/29/2010 10:17 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > >Why do passenger train windows have curtains? > > Okay - I can't help it! I bet the engineer's windows don't have > curtains. :-) I think we have to accept that there are different require

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/31 08:33:29: > > * Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:57:40PM CET: > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/30 00:34:17: > > > First off, `make -s' is both POSIX and portable. Conceptually, `make > > > -s' has nothing to do with the `silent-rules' optio

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/31 08:24:44: > > Hello, > > let me address one part of the issue here (for the moment let's > ignore the separate libtool --mode=install verbosity issue): > > * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:47:40PM CET: > > You don't need that much programming

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:57:40PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/30 00:34:17: > > First off, `make -s' is both POSIX and portable. Conceptually, `make > > -s' has nothing to do with the `silent-rules' option that recent > > Exactly, and I am asking for autotools

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, let me address one part of the issue here (for the moment let's ignore the separate libtool --mode=install verbosity issue): * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:47:40PM CET: > You don't need that much programming skills to fix this, infact, all > the scaffolding is in place

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/30 00:34:17: > > Hello, > > * Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:05:07AM CET: > > > > Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? > > > > I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. > > When a developer ask

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Peter Johansson wrote on 2010/01/29 18:00:33: > > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? > > > > > Wow. Pointless trying to add anything to discussion whether things are > good or evil. > > But note this comment in depend2.am: > > ## Verbosity

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote on 2010/01/29 17:47:40: > >> I was refering to AM_SILENT_RULES, which supresses `make all' >> output; so this is not a very controversial topic, it is already >> in automake and used by several projects. Would you like to work >> on this feature? The main

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:05:07AM CET: > > Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? > > I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. > When a developer asks for a silent build in order to catch problems > all one shou

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread John Calcote
On 1/29/2010 10:17 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Regarding silent installs: Why do passenger trains have windows? Why do passenger train windows have curtains? SCNR :) Okay - I can't help it! I bet the engineer'

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Joakim Tjernlund writes: > I don't know where to start even and considering that silent builds > seems to be a very controversial subject within the autotools > maintainers , I think this needs to come from the maintainers themselves > to have any chance to be accepted. There are some people on

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Regarding silent installs: Why do passenger trains have windows? Why do passenger train windows have curtains? SCNR :) oki, Steffen

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/29/2010 02:05 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> Could you please explain that? > > Example: Compling a package under linux > > configure --prefix=/usr > ... > gcc -DCONFDIR="/foo/bar" -DIRIX ... > > Using silent make rules you will no

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Johansson
Joakim Tjernlund wrote: Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? Wow. Pointless trying to add anything to discussion whether things are good or evil. But note this comment in depend2.am: ## Verbosity of FASTDEP rules ## -- ## (1) Some peop

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> I was refering to AM_SILENT_RULES, which supresses `make all' > output; so this is not a very controversial topic, it is already > in automake and used by several projects. Would you like to work > on this feature? The maintainers can't accept a patch that > doesn't exist after a

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
knowledge by talking about GNU when you talk about GNU-powered software distributions (a la GNU/Linux instead of just Linux). See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more details. Dag nabbit! The broken record is repeating again. Got to get a new one. Regarding silent instal

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 03:42 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: On 01/29/2010 02:05 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Silent make rules are harmful: >> - Bogus defines [] >> typically do not show up as compiler warnings o

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
On 01/29/2010 02:05 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Silent make rules are harmful: >> - Bogus defines [] >> typically do not show up as compiler warnings or errors. > > Could you please explain that? Exam

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 02:05 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Silent make rules are harmful: - Bogus defines [] typically do not show up as compiler warnings or errors. Could you please explain that? Example: Compling a package under linux

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Silent make rules are harmful: > - Bogus defines [] > typically do not show up as compiler warnings or errors. Could you please explain that? Here, most either use make from vim/emacs and use $EDITOR as error message parser or u

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote on 2010/01/29 11:59:51: > >> And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose >> output is useful, automake already supports silent compilation. >> I know that > >Yes, but automake --silent is a different tool, perhaps it should >learn sup

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose > output is useful, automake already supports silent compilation. > I know that Yes, but automake --silent is a different tool, perhaps it should learn suppress the install mgs as well as other libtool msgs such as

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote on 2010/01/29 11:17:24: > > And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose output > is useful, automake already supports silent compilation. I know that Yes, but automake --silent is a different tool, perhaps it should learn suppress the install mgs as we

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Corsepius wrote on 2010/01/29 10:05:04: > > On 01/29/2010 09:35 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote on 2010/01/29 09:21:46: > > > >> On 01/29/2010 09:05 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? > >>> > >>> I wou

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 11:17 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose output is useful, Where? So far, I have only experienced the contrary. automake already supports silent compilation. Yes, some automake maintainers share your opinion. I believe thes

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose output is useful, automake already supports silent compilation. I know that I have missed errors or warnings beause having had to much output to read, Joakim, would you like to work on a patch for this? I think it would be immensly use

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 09:35 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote on 2010/01/29 09:21:46: On 01/29/2010 09:05 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. W

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Corsepius wrote on 2010/01/29 09:21:46: > > On 01/29/2010 09:05 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? > > > > I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. > What for? I just said that below. > > > When a de

Re: silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2010 09:05 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. What for? When a developer asks for a silent build in order to catch problems all one should see is real warning

silent installs

2010-01-29 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Is there a reason why the install target doesn't respect make -s? I would really like to see autotools and libtool respect make -s. When a developer asks for a silent build in order to catch problems all one should see is real warnings and problems. Jocke