Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output (final)

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output (final)


> Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
>
> > ** Proposal details
> >
> > When you run make or make doc,
> >
> >     * All output will be saved to various log files, with the
> >       exception of output directly from make(1).
> >     * By default, no other output will be displayed on the
> >       console, with one exception: if a build fails,
> [...]
> >       The user may optionally request additional output to be
> > printed; this is controlled with the VERBOSE=x flag.
>
>
> Building the program (as opposed to documentation) is now *very* nice, 
> with
>
> make -s bin
>
> where -s is short for --silent to tell make not to print the commands she 
> runs.
> We see errors or warnings from the changed files and nothing else.  The 
> entire
> source tree generates only seven warnings, all but one of which point to 
> code we
> could write more clearly.
>
> Under this proposal, we should choose an easy-to-type VERBOSE=x option 
> that
> allows use to see the stderr stream from gcc and yacc and lex.


Thanks Keith.  Please bear in mind that make bin will only look into the 
lily directory, so only source files there are rebuilt.

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Phil Holmes