Re: Suppress "is up to date" log?

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.


On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:48 AM Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-11-06 02:28, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Is there a solution to suppress this 'up to date' log?
>
> Hi, Masahiro,
>
> Use make -s.  That option also suppresses the printing of
> the recipe commands that are being executed. However, that
> is not a problem for a makefile which already hides them
> with the @ character, and performs its own customized printing.


The -s option hides everything, so it is not a solution.



See the test case in my previous email.

"make baz bar" _did_ update bar.

Why does Make pretend like
"'bar' had already been up-to-date before the command invocation" ?

Make is giving *invalid* information.

Do you see my point?



>
>   0:[1106:073304]:sun-go:~/txr$ make all
>   make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
>   0:[1106:073306]:sun-go:~/txr$ make -s
>   0:[1106:073307]:sun-go:~/txr$ touch eval.c stdlib/optimize.tl
>   0:[1106:073318]:sun-go:~/txr$ make -s
>   CC eval.c -> opt/eval.o
>   LINK opt/txr.o [.. SNIP ...] opt/gzio.o -> txr
>   TXR stdlib/optimize.tl -> stdlib/optimize.tlo
>   0:[1106:073325]:sun-go:~/txr$ make -s
>   0:[1106:073327]:sun-go:~/txr$
>
> Unfortunately, I see that the kernel Makefile is too clever;
> when you run make -s, it obeys that and suppresses its
> custom output like:
>
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      vmlinux.o
>
> Maybe there is a way to opt-in to that output in spite of
> make -s?


No, that is not an option.

With -s option, Kbuild deliberately suppresses everything except
error/warning messages.

Some people (especially those who work in continuous integration)
think it is very useful; if "make -s" outputs zero log,
the kernel build succeeded without any warning.

Linus is very picky about any build warning.




>
> (I work in embedded, so I'm not on the latest kernel;
> I'm doing everything here with 4.9.)
>
> I see that in tools/build/Makefile.build, it is checking
> for -s being in MAKEFLAGS and manipulating the quiet
> variable. This works for me:
>
>   make -s quiet=quiet_


"quiet" is used as an internal variable.
Not intended for a tweak from the command line.


>
> The check for -s in MAKEFLAGS is done in a way that
> the user's V variable is ignored. At a glance, I don't
> see any deliberate interface for overriding that; so
> I resorted to overriding the quiet variable with the
> correct internal value to get the default abbreviated
> comand printing mode.

As I said, this is an intended behavior.
Kbuild takes -s precedence over V= option
because -s is a strong demand
"Please suppress logs except error/warning".




> Cheers ...

>
>
>


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada