Re: : libtool-1.9f: Added option "quiet" - only errors and warnings go through, now

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Juergen, 

Juergen Leising writes:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 05:29:54PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > OTOH, there is a different, and IMHO orthogonal component: even with
> > --silent, libtool outputs a little bit of information (which I believe
> > your patch works on as well).  The question is: Should we add another 
> > option to be completely silent, or maybe just make --silent be
> > completely silent?  What do you/the others think?

> ..., exactly, this is what my patch was meant to be about: 
> Complete silence. It's really useful when you try and find
> errors in third party software you are not too much familiar
> with.

I would probably be inclined to accept a patch enforcing complete silence. 
Nobody has stepped up to argue whether or not a new switch should be 
necessary for this, I am pretty indifferent to this myself. 

> But anyway, it's not that important. As I have seen in the
> meantime, my patch still does not reach "complete" silence
> (regarding install and uninstall). And you are absolutely right:
> there are ways to enforce silence in any respect...

Sure. 

Cheers,
Ralf