Re: make -s

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 10 January 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Richard Hacker wrote on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:39:31PM CET:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2008 08:29, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > For whatever output is left done by libtool I expect that whoever
> > > want's it silenced hard enough will have enough motivation to send a
> > > patch to <address@hidden>.
> >
> > That shouldn't bee too difficult.
>
> Misunderstanding again, this time my fault, sorry.
>
> What I meant was: even with
>   make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent
>
> there will be some leftover output done by libtool.  If somebody wants
> to fix that, be invited to provide a (complete) patch (best including
> testsuite amend; the stresstest in Libtool HEAD would probably come in
> handy).
>
> If you want all tools silenced which are called by make, then I suggest
> to simply use
>   make >/dev/null || make

well, we're after the automatic output going away, not intended output.  but i 
guess you could (reasonably) argue that status messages intended to be seen 
should be sent to stderr, not stdout ...
-mike

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