Re: verbosity

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 06:20 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:28 -0600, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> > > >  This makes it *very* easy to miss potential important compiler warnings
> > > > and such in all the noise.
> > > I could not disagree more.
> >
> > attitudes like that are why some of us don't bother using your code.
> People who can't stand other opinions but their own, better should
> refrain from asking on mailing lists.

I took into account the fact that patches for this have been rejected
(same attitude).

> Technically, I've been bitten too many times by "silent Makefiles" to
> find them useful. Esp. those issuing messages such as "Compiling xxx.o"
> instead of the real commands they are executing. There are more things
> but compiler-warnings/errors.

fine - it's useful to _you_.

not me.  It's been an option in my configure scripts for several years.

Reading your comment yesterday closely, that means I'm stupid also,
because I don't do things _your_ way.

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