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Re: : libtool-1.9f: Added option "quiet" - only errors and warnings go t
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Albert Chin |
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Re: : libtool-1.9f: Added option "quiet" - only errors and warnings go through, now |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:23:21 -0500 |
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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:31:31AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
>
> Juergen Leising writes:
> >On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 05:29:54PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>OTOH, there is a different, and IMHO orthogonal component: even with
> >>--silent, libtool outputs a little bit of information (which I believe
> >>your patch works on as well). The question is: Should we add another
> >>option to be completely silent, or maybe just make --silent be
> >>completely silent? What do you/the others think?
>
> >..., exactly, this is what my patch was meant to be about:
> >Complete silence. It's really useful when you try and find
> >errors in third party software you are not too much familiar
> >with.
>
> I would probably be inclined to accept a patch enforcing complete silence.
> Nobody has stepped up to argue whether or not a new switch should be
> necessary for this, I am pretty indifferent to this myself.
Rather than another switch, how about if --silent is given more than
one, libtool becomes "really silent". Kinda like --verbose being given
more than once for some programs being more "verbose".
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albert chin (address@hidden)