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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] makefile: add silent rules
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:10:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502D8BFC.8030601@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30247.132.241.65.36.1345158201.squirrel@lavabit.com>

On 08/17/2012 01:03 AM, idunham@lavabit.com wrote:
>> make V=0 to enable them
>> ---
> Remind me what the _benefit_ is?

An in between make -s and normal make.

> I remember there were several advantages to standard full output, so the
> verdict was that *if* they're added, they get disabled by default.

It is disabled by default.

> While this patch does respect that, I'd like to know whether there's a
> better reason for the added ugliness than "Some folks don't like to see
> what's happening"...

It is faster, you see the warnings w/out useless clutter. You do not
care about seeing what the clean target is doing most of the times and such.

> Also, I note that you're also making a couple other changes: RM, LN, and
> INSTALL...
> Last time, Rich said he didn't see a reason to use $(RM), since rm is
> POSIX. Same can be said of ln/$(LN).
> install appears (per man 1p) to not be POSIX, but is fairly widespread. I
> can see this helping with the occasional broken version of install.

It is used for the quiet machinery

> Patch 3/3 is the most valuable part of the series, I think.
> I can see merging that, and patch 2/3 is trivial.

Indeed, but since I did the work and since at least for few people is
useful I tried to rebase it.

>>  -include config.mak
> Umm.... Is this an accident?

Uhm? " -include config.mak" is just that line, see the leading space.

> Axe this part (see above)
> See above.

It is part of the quiet rule.

lu


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16 16:18 Luca Barbato
2012-08-16 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] cosmetic: remove trailing whitespace Luca Barbato
2012-08-16 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] makefile: split install target Luca Barbato
2012-08-17 23:33   ` Rich Felker
2012-08-16 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] makefile: add silent rules orc
2012-08-16 17:05   ` Luca Barbato
2012-08-16 23:03 ` idunham
2012-08-16 23:06   ` Gregor Richards
2012-08-17  0:10   ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2012-08-17  1:21     ` Rich Felker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-13  5:22 Build system tweaks Luca Barbato
2012-06-13  5:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] makefile: add silent rules Luca Barbato
2012-06-13  6:27   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-13  7:46     ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-13  7:34   ` John Spencer
2012-06-13  7:45     ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-13  9:45       ` John Spencer

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