Re: Refactoring elisp compilation

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 07/17/2012 07:05 AM, Jack Kelly wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> At least we should find a way to silence all messages that are not
>> real warnings or errors...  Otherwise, adding silent rules support
>> would just be pointless.
> 
> I have been asking about this on SO, and there has been a little
> progress towards a resolution:
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/11498108/429232
> 
> Look at the answer involving grep.
>
Duh, that's viable, but also quite horrible IMHO :-/  I hope we'll not
have to resort to something like that ...

> Is there any portable way to grep
> away the loading messages without losing the exit status?
>
Yes: using temporary files :-(

Since the lack of silent rules for elisp compilation is not a regression,
I'd rather wait to implement them until we have a proper, non-hacky
solution.

Maybe we could try to write to the Emacs list for help at this point...

Thanks,
  Stefano