Dear Rod Boyce, In message <4dfcc7bc.7070...@teamboyce.co.uk> you wrote: > > here. I agree with what Amicalement has said so far. As an example
You mean Albert. "Amicalement" is French and means "best regards" ;-) > A fragment from my common makefile system is this: > # New improved verbose mode > V ?= 0 > ifeq ($(V),1) > NOOUT := > /dev/null > else > MAKEFLAGS += -s > endif I think it is a bit of overkill to introduce code just to set a plain simple command option. Instead of inventing new magic that needs to be documented we should rather just use the standard make options directly, I stronly prefer to use make -s if no output is wanted (or rather run "./MAKEALL name" which already does exactly that, and more). > This means that I switch on silent make mode unless the developer add I am not a friend of changinmg the default behaviour of standard tools. If someone wants silent operation, he should use the silent flag. > V=1 to the make command line and I add to the each rule a line similar to: > @echo "Compiling : $(notdir $<)" $(NOOUT) > or > @echo "Link app : $@" $(NOOUT) It will not stay as simple - the whole trickery in the Linux makefiles is there for some good reasons. And don't think I want to have this here. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot