Re: Silent compilation

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Steffen Boerm wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> > > Simply using the ".SILENT: ..." pseudo-target goes a little too
> > > far, I would prefer something similar to the behaviour of the
> > > Linux kernel Makefiles, e.g., printing only the line
> >
> > >   Compiling foo.c
> >
> > > when foo.c is compiled.
> >
> > > Is there a portable way of doing this?
> >
> > Modifying the rules that are output to silently compile and echo stuff,
> > sure.
>
> What is the best way of doing this?

There's probably more than one.  I implement this in my larger configure
scripts as a --disable-echo option (see ncurses for example).  otoh, I've
not found a constructive use for automake (so my macros don't take it into
account).

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