Re: Modify Output to look like Linux Kernel

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Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:34:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >
> > > A big difference between Automake projects and building the Linux kernel 
> > > is that building the linux kernel is practically assured to succeed where 
> > > as building Automake projects may fail and require correction by the end 
> > > user (who needs to see what is going on).
> > In my scripts, I have an option "--disable-echo", which does the same 
> > thing.  Oddly enough (but worth repeating since none of the cons who 
> > respond to this relatively frequent request appear to have noticed that 
> > the error messages give line numbers, and better compilers/tools give 
> > column numbers as well), that's enough for all but a very small fraction 
> > of the time.
> >
> > (Perhaps someone should clone automake, naming it "autobuild" or something 
> > like that, and fix this and the other frequently-ignored-requests ;-)
>
> Even easier. Perhaps someone should post a patch for this feature!


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