[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #58013 (project make): FWIW I thought of another way to do this in a portable way: submake: ; GNUMAKEFLAGS=--no-print-directory $(MAKE) recurse or some form of that. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Dmitry Goncharov
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #58013 (project make): Posix is explicit that -s and .SILENT are both about command lines. If we wanted to be strictly posix conformant 'Entering directory' should be printed even when -s is specified. if .SILENT is stretched to suppress other messages such as 'Entering

Re: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects

2020-03-21 Thread Rocky Bernstein
Ok. I totally understand. I thought it worth a shot. On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:55 AM Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 11:16 -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > > In another list I see that GNU has been accepted for Summer of Code > > and is looking for projects. > > > > [If this is not

Re: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects

2020-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 11:16 -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > In another list I see that GNU has been accepted for Summer of Code > and is looking for projects. > > [If this is not appropriate here, let me know. I couldn't find a > general make developers list.] > > My suggesion regarding GNU

[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Dmitry Goncharov
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58013 (project make): "Entering directory' message when the user is not expecting one is a benign backward incompatibility. i'd be more concern about the opposite. Also, reinstating the prior behavior is incompatible with 4.3.