[PATCH] Reduce build verbosity when updating timestamp files

[PATCH] Reduce build verbosity when updating timestamp files

[Bart Schaefer]

Anyone have any objection to this?  It puts a leading @ on the commands
in Makemod that do nothing but update timestamps, so that "make" is less
verbose when there's nothing to be rebuilt.


diff --git a/Src/mkmakemod.sh b/Src/mkmakemod.sh
index 2633c27..0021609 100644
--- a/Src/mkmakemod.sh
+++ b/Src/mkmakemod.sh
@@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ if $first_stage; then
 	echo "\$(SYMS_${mddname}): \$(PROTODEPS)"
 	echo
 	echo "${mddname}.export: \$(SYMS_${mddname})"
-	echo "	( echo '#!'; cat \$(SYMS_${mddname}) | sed -n '/^X/{s/^X//;p;}' | sort -u ) > \$@"
+	echo "	@( echo '#!'; cat \$(SYMS_${mddname}) | sed -n '/^X/{s/^X//;p;}' | sort -u ) > \$@"
 	echo
 	echo "modobjs.${mddname}: \$(MODOBJS_${mddname})"
-	echo "	echo '' \$(MODOBJS_${mddname}) $modobjs_sed>> \$(dir_src)/stamp-modobjs.tmp"
+	echo "	@echo '' \$(MODOBJS_${mddname}) $modobjs_sed>> \$(dir_src)/stamp-modobjs.tmp"
 	echo
 	if test -z "$alwayslink"; then
 	    case " $all_modules" in *" ${mddname}."*)

Re: [PATCH] Reduce build verbosity when updating timestamp files

[Peter Stephenson]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:53:20 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any objection to this?  It puts a leading @ on the commands
> in Makemod that do nothing but update timestamps, so that "make" is less
> verbose when there's nothing to be rebuilt.

I think that's fine.

Just as a vaguely related point that doesn't actually have a lot to do
with this --- there's one place where I quite like the verbosity:
sometimes I build from the archive on a machine that doesn't have
autoconf, and I run autoconf on a machine with access to the same disk.
After running configure on the build machine, I have to make some
timestamp file on the other machine to get he headers sorted out (only
the first time after configure.ac changed).  So it's useful to see what
that is.  However, I have a feeling I end up digging in the Makefile
anyway.  There may be a better solution to this.

pws

Re: [PATCH] Reduce build verbosity when updating timestamp files

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jul 28,  9:46am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} sometimes I build from the archive on a machine that doesn't have
} autoconf, and I run autoconf on a machine with access to the same disk.
} After running configure on the build machine, I have to make some
} timestamp file on the other machine to get he headers sorted out (only
} the first time after configure.ac changed).  So it's useful to see what
} that is.  However, I have a feeling I end up digging in the Makefile
} anyway.  There may be a better solution to this.

I do this all the time.  You need to touch these three files:

    config.h.in
    configure
    stamp-h.in

"make" will then proceed through re-running configure and rebuilding.

My current minor peeve is that config.modules keeps getting reset to the
default and I haven't figured out where.  I've taken to keeping a copy
as config.modules.local and manually copying it back to config.modules
from time to time.  I should automate that somehow, I suppose, but in
the rare event that a new module gets added that would stomp on it.