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Re: FYI: fixing output of aclocal --verbose
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: FYI: fixing output of aclocal --verbose |
Date: |
02 Feb 2001 18:56:21 +0100 |
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Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
> In fact, when I run "autoreconf --verbose" I only want to know what it's
> running. I can hardly imagine that I'll ever really need the verbose
> output of all tools in the same time.
I do!
Then I'd suggest introducing --quiet too for silent, and have
--verbose for full verbosity, default to saying what tool it is
running.
> If I know how exactly autoreconf is running automake, I'll rerun automake
> with "--verbose".
>
> My suggestion is that autoreconf should
>
> 1) print what it's calling by default (except the calls to autoconf
> --trace and others that don't change files). No redirections.
>
> 2) don't print what it's calling with --quiet. No redirections.
>
> 3) when called with --verbose, propagate it, print what it's calling and
> redirect all to stderr.
>
> This would change the default behavior, but since the output of
> autoreconf is intended mostly for humans, it shouldn't be an issue.
Sounds pretty much the same :) That an OK in advance.