Re: Report to stdout like Linux kernel compilation does

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> When Alexandre last commented on a request like this, one comment that
> wasn't already mentioned in this thread was this issue: a patch for
> nicer output should not cause hugely increased Makefile.in files.
> Makefile.in size is an issue for some larger projects.

Since libtool is going to be even faster than it is now, it seems that 
this should free up some CPU time for Automake to implement reporting 
to stdout like the Linux kernel compilation does.  I see little need 
to give back this CPU time to the community since CPUs spend most of 
their time executing the kernel idle task and autotool developers are 
more qualified than mere users to decide how to make use of the CPU 
time which has already been acquired.  We can simply wire-transfer it 
from the libtool CPU time account into Automake's CPU time account. 
If the next Automake and libtool are released at the same time, no one 
will notice that the transfer took place.

Once libtool is faster, people will start to complain that the large 
size of the Automake makefile causes 'make' to take a long time to 
start doing anything.  A shim layer called 'nmake' can be used to 
capture the output of 'make -n' and execute these commands more 
efficiently via the bash shell.

Bob
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