Re: silent installs

[Peter Johansson]

On 1/31/10 6:10 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues<address@hidden>  wrote on 2010/01/31 08:38:38:
>    
> >      
> >
> > My problem with that change is that, the relinking and finish
> > really are information that some users need to know about.
> > If you don't --finish, then your libraries won't be found by
> > the runtime linker.  If relinking happens as another user than
> > the one who ran `make all', that is a problem to know about, too,
> > because it can lead to problems with file ownership and directory
> > write permission.
> >      
> But they are not errors so they should not be directed to stderr no matter what.
> Then one can argue if --silent should suppress these msgs too or not.
>
>    
Moving these messages to stdout would have the positive side effect that 
`make distcheck > /dev/null' would become silent.

That would be nice but is not worth it, if it means users miss the 
--finsih warning and end up sending bug reports to me about runtime errors.

Thanks,
Peter