15 Sep
2010
15 Sep
'10
11:25 p.m.
Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 201009151620.05329.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
i dont really want this to be completely silenced all the time. introduce a variable to prefix things with for people to control ? Q_BUILD = @ ... $(Q_BUILD).....
NAK. Please do not add such mess to the Makefile. It does not belong there. If you want such behaviour, it should be added to the make command itself.
I repeat myself, but all this cmd_* / quiet_cmd_* stuff etc. we see in the Linux kernel Makefiles (and copied around into a zillion of other projects) does not belong to the Makefile; it should be implemented inside make itself.
I never understood why nobody bothered to solve the problem at the root.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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