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Re: modification of what is displayed during compilation
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: modification of what is displayed during compilation |
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Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:18:57 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > The best would be to add an argument to configure script, so that i can
> > choose one of the two kinds of display.
>
> As long as abreviated display doesn't become the default, this seems
> ok to me. I absolutely abhor builds which don't detail everything
> they are doing because then it becomes a bloody nightmare to fix
> things if the build doesn't work (which is often the case with such
> makefiles). I do understand that some people prefer to work with
> blinders on though.
and some people prefer to just look at what's important.
fwiw, I add a "--disable-echo" to any interesting (non-trivial) configure
script. "make -n" always works (for any properly-constructed makefile).
afterthought: Not that it works well with libtool - its notion of verbose
and quiet is haphazard.
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