Re: `message' not outputting the newline "atomically"

[Richard Copley]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 03:33, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Richard Copley <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:35:24 +0100
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       Emacs Development <address@hidden>
>
>  As for "make -O", could it be that you were talking literally about
>  that, i.e. about "make -O=target"?  Because I meant "make -O=line",
>  which AFAIR slows down the build only slightly, and provides the
>  line-level separation that you want to see.  I think using that is a
>  good compromise.
>
> "make -O=line" buffers all output from one line of the Makefile.
> For typical targets with only one command, it's the same as "-O".

Our targets are not one-line, though.

Some are, notably .c.o. The point is that your statement that "make -O=line"

"provides the line-level separation that you want to see" is not true. It's up to

you to decide if that affects your argument.