Re: Modify Output to look like Linux Kernel

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Bob Rossi wrote:

> What I was originally suggesting is that I think there is literally
> thousands, to tens of thousands of people that would appreciate it if
> the automake output could be configurable when they do, ./configure &&
> make.

That's a more reasonable estimate...

> My friends know that I use automake to maintain a few packages. The most
> common question I get is, "Is it possible to make the output look like
> the linux kernel?"
>
> With all of that said, I still personally prefer the verbose output. To
> me, that is always the most useful.

Actually I prefer the concise output (and vary rarely need more than 
config.status in addition to the make output).  That's even accounting for 
stepping through error/warning messages automatically (perhaps emacs has 
some status line that deciphers _what_ the long command was attempting to 
do - I haven't implemented _that_ in vile).

But I'm aware that very few packagers use --disable-echo (though google 
isn't very cooperative at yielding an estimate ;-)

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