On Saturday 11 April 2009 08:25:50 phcoder wrote:
> I don't see any stoppers to merge this patch

Personally, I don't like this so much. Is it so useful?

Regards,
Okuji

>
> Javier Martín wrote:
> > This patch modifies several files in the build system (mainly common.rmk
> > and genmk.rb) to reduce the general verbosity of the build process to a
> > manageable, semi-informative level. Thus, what currently appears as
> > "gcc" calls, several lines long each is turned into lines like:
> >
> > [M xfs.mod] COMPILE ../src/fs/xfs.c ->
> > xfs_mod-fs_xfs.o
> > [M xfs.mod] LINK xfs_mod-fs_xfs.o ->
> > pre-xfs.o
> > [M xfs.mod] Looking for EXPORTED SYMBOL definitions: pre-xfs.o
> >
> > And so on. The change also makes warning-hunting marginally easier,
> > though not by much since the patch intentionally shows a line for nearly
> > every process that did so previously. This behavior could be simplified
> > further if needed - this post is more of an RFC than anything else.
> > Also, it is by no means thorough or complete - only the most common
> > processes have been addressed - as I'm a bit busy with exams.
> >
> > The patch makes the new behavior the default one, so a new make-time
> > option is added: V (for "verbose"), which must have the value 1 in order
> > to get the behavior, as in "make V=1"
> >
> >
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