Re: Summarising compiler output?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:35 +0200, Gary wrote:
> > Filtering done using a shell call should be faster than a parsing and
> > filtering done by make. (Please correct me if this does not apply!!)
> 
> Okay. I was wondering whether there was anything built into make that
> would allow me to do it.

No... and there cannot be.  GNU make simply invokes a shell and gives it
the command line you provided, then waits for the shell to exit.  The
shell sends its output to the terminal directly: GNU make does not try
to capture the output of the shell command and print it.  Thus, GNU make
cannot filter the output of the shell command.

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