On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 12:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Can we make meson pass '-q' only for non-verbose builds, so that > > if you pass make 'V=1' you still get the verbose sphinx output ? > > The meson.build rules are turned into a ninja.build file at configure time. > IOW, at the time that conversion happens the V=1 arg isn't present, so we > can't conditionally pass '-q'.
I'd rather have "always verbose" than "never verbose" then, I think. Also, this seems like a meson/ninja misfeature if we can't do a perfectly sensible thing. We can do it for cc, why not sphinx? thanks -- PMM