Well, it is not what he was asking, but... maybe an acceptable solution, useful in other situations, would be, to filter the output of make through some Perl script. I do this myself as a routine matter. When people ask, why do you have a wrapper make.bat and not just call "make.exe" directly, I say, calling programs directly is like riding a horse without a saddle, it is possible..., but painful and not fun.
So I have a wrapper, in which I prepare the call to make, and then take the output out of make and do whatever I want with it, for example, if make is called with parallel option, I save the errors output for the end, or suppress/interpret any error messages which my users find too cryptic. Mark (...) > Is there a way to suppress printing out built-in commands that GNU-make > executes? a way to suppress printing out this command as its being executed? There is no way, short of editing the code, to silence that message unfortunately. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
