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

[Sam James]

Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

Thanks. I'm going to give it a try.