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

[Ileana Dumitrescu]

On 15/08/2024 21:27, Nick Bowler wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > However, I also wonder if the suppression should be decided by a
> > verbosity option/variable rather than a compile mode option.
>
> Yes, I was a bit surprised to discover that the existing --verbose
> flag which is documented in the manual to
>
>    "Print out ... additional messages not ordinary seen by default"
>
> does not disable this suppression.  If it did, then presumably automated
> build robots (at least when it comes to Automake-generated packages)
> could just build with make LIBTOOLFLAGS=--verbose and be done.

I have generated a patch to update the default suppression for PIC
compilations from the second compilation being discarded to outputting a
diff of the first and second compilations. If verbosity has been set,
there should be output from both compilations. The -no-suppress option
has also been removed, and the documentation updated. Does anyone have
any issues or updates for this?

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Ileana Dumitrescu

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