Re: modification of what is displayed during compilation

[Thomas Dickey]

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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