Re: [PATCH] ltmain.in: don't suppress output for PIC compilations

2024-08-15 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-08-15 12:13, Sam James wrote: > Ileana Dumitrescu writes: >> However, you could also just specify '-no-suppress' when compiling >> rather than changing the default behaviour. > > (Is there a way to do this globally? If I put it in CFLAGS globally, > won't this break if libtool isn't used

Re: [PATCH] ltmain.in: don't suppress output for PIC compilations

2024-08-15 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-08-15 13:37, Sam James wrote: > More annoying to have an error suppressed that is not obvious to debug, > especially if one isn't aware of this behaviour. By default (unless you pass --silent), libtool prints the compiler commands it is executing, which includes the output redirection to /

Re: [PATCH] ltmain.in: don't suppress output for PIC compilations

2024-08-15 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-08-15 14:13, Ileana Dumitrescu wrote: > Printing the differences on the second run seems like a better default, > while keeping the option for -no-suppress for the complete log. Maybe > adding an informational message about -no-suppress with the diff > would help resolve some confusion? >

Re: [PATCH] ltmain.in: don't suppress output for PIC compilations

2024-08-15 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-08-15 13:51, Sam James wrote: > I'm not really seeing any sort of justification for doing this other > than "duplicate output maybe being annoying", but the duplicate output > isn't even assured, and it appears based on a misnomer anyway. Please keep in mind that some compilers (*cough*Mic