I have just pushed a new way of controlling the make log verbosity to
the build-infra repository. Hopefully, it will get integrated into the
build and mainline forests further on.
With this new system, the makefile verbosity can be controlled using the
LOG variable. LOG can be set to any of "warn", "info", "debug" or
"trace" (inspired by log4j log levels). The default is "warn".
* LOG=warn will give you just basic information about build process, and
warnings and errors reported by the tools.
* LOG=info will mimick the old makefiles, that is, print each command as
it is executed by make. This is helpful for determining tricky errors in
the source code, where the error message does not clearly state which
file is problematic.
* LOG=debug will display all shell executions (not only when make
executes a rule, but also in the internal Makefile logic). This is
helpful for debugging Makefile problems. If you want to report a problem
with the new build system, please run with LOG=debug to create a full
debug log for us. (Note that the log gets extemly large with this
setting, so it cannot be attached to an email.)
* LOG=trace displays inner workings of make and is probably not useful
except in extreme cases.
As always, the complete build log is saved to the file build.log in your
build directory.
The old way of explicitely setting make flags using the VERBOSE variable
(e.g. setting it to VERBOSE= to disable the default "-s") is still
available but is not recommended.
/Magnus
