Report to stdout like Linux kernel compilation does

[Stefan Bienert]

Hi automakers,

probably this is an oftne asked and therefore annoying question ... but 
is there a simple way to get automake to produce a similar output as the 
Linux kernel makefiles?
Instead of this verbose confusing output like automake makefiles, the 
kernels make produces something like
[ compile object1 ]
[ compile object2 ]
...
[ building module ]

and so on.
For me it would be nice to have something like a switch in the configure 
script to enable/ disbale verbose/ minimalistic information. E.g. first 
try with min. info, run into an error, therefore rerun with extensive 
info, search for the min. statemnt on which the error occured and voila!
Like this:
./configure --disable-verbose
make
[ compile object1 ]
[ compile object2 ]
error on building object 2!

./configure
make | grep
[ compile object1 ]
if gcc ... and so on
[ compile object2 ]
if gcc ... and so on
error...

I hope somebody can understand what I want to do.

greetings,

Stefan

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Stefan Bienert
Zentrum fuer Bioinformatik
Universitaet Hamburg
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Germany

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