Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Jan Engelhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday 2008-12-22 21:36, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> >On Monday 2008-12-15 21:19, William Pursell wrote:
>>>
>>> >The make info pages mention that $? expands to “all the prerequisites
>>> >that are newer than the target”, and that sounds like there could be
>>> >more than just the .c file.
>>> >
>>> >I just noticed that LD should have used $^.
>>> 
>>> Replying to myself - no it should not :p
>>> 
>>> gmake's $^ is not supported by BSD make.
>>> And BSD make's $> is not supported by gmake.
>>>  ( :-/ )^2
>>
>>And non-GNU make support $< only in inference rules and not elsewhere.
>
> In that case, removing V=1 again is probably the best solution.
> (Leaving only V=0 and V=infinity)

Not necessarily.  We could document that V=1 is supported, as in "expected to
generate clean output", only on GNU make.  On other makes, '$<' probably
expands to the empty string, causing only mildly strange looking output
otherwise equivalent to V=0.

- Hari