Re: Reducing verbosity of automake

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Sean,

* Christopher Sean Morrison wrote on Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:26:39PM CEST:
> 
> Usually, the problem from a purely practical standpoint is that the  
> error is rarely at the very end, it's somewhere probably in the last  
> 50-200 lines or so of the output depending on the situation.  So they  
> either send me the entire massive log (because all things being  
> equal, that's the safest thing for me to instruct of them) or they  
> send me only the very last 2-3 lines that say Error, which is almost  
> always useless.

So why don't you instruct them to send the complete output of
  make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent || make

which should at least increase the signal to noise ratio somewhat.

Cheers,
Ralf