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Idea: MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS variable silences make warnings
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David A. Wheeler |
Subject: |
Idea: MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS variable silences make warnings |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:37:03 -0400 (EDT) |
Problem:
Make warnings are generally useful, but in special cases they can be spurious.
It'd be nice to be able to control them.
Solution:
Create a new make special variable "MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS".
By default it is not set (empty). If it's non-empty (true),
then make does not print make warnings. Make errors are still printed, and
commands (which can generate messages) are unaffected.
It's expected that MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS would typically be used
as a target-specific or pattern-specific private special variable. E.g.,
weird-thing: MAKE_SILENCEWARNINGS = true
--- David A. Wheeler
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