Re: --no-silent --no-quiet style option

[J. Grant]

Hello,

>      > > As I mentioned before, I'm not interested in adding lots of new
>      > > options.  Instead I want to implement one comprehensive option where 
> you
>      > > can specify exactly what types of output you want generated and which
>      > > you don't.
>      > 
>      > I'm only suggesting one option, to invert the --silent option.  gcc and 
>      > most other programs also include "no-" versions of options which turn 
>      > things on.  Do you mean that you are planning on implementing features 
>      > like this as an option that takes a number of values like "no-silent" ?
>      > 
>      > 
>      > Regards
>      > 
>      > 
>    
> I like that...
>
> I added an "always echo" flag to make last year
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2002-12/msg00058.html
>
> I found it very useful debugging OTHERs makefiles (I got very annoyed
> with building something...).

I agree, to keep with GNU conventions I prefer your patch to having 
--debug=no-silent,no-jobs    etc.

Is there a way I can vote for your patch Marty?  Paul, could Marty's 
patch be reviewed again for inclusion please?

Regards


JG