Stephen Henson via RT wrote: >> [philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com - Mon Jan 26 12:00:57 2009]: >> >> When doing a version bump on distros (especially distros that may have >> required some patching to accommodate this package), the "silent death" >> of commands that run and fail without emitting any output makes it >> especially difficult to figure out what died and why. >> >> I'd recommend using something like: >> >> QUIET=y >> ifeq ($(QUIET),y) >> Q:=@ >> else >> Q:= >> endif >> >> in the makefiles, and allowing one to override QUIET from the command > line. >> >> > > There have been some concerns expressed in the mailing list about how > portable this is to the many version of 'make' it has to work with. > > Steve. >
The '@' command for quiet has been standard in Make going back to (at least) 4.3BSD (circa 1983). It could always be bracketed by a test for non-compliant OSes... -Philip ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
