Re: silent installs

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote on 2010/01/31 08:24:44:
>
> Hello,
>
> let me address one part of the issue here (for the moment let's
> ignore the separate libtool --mode=install verbosity issue):
>
> * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:47:40PM CET:
> > You don't need that much programming skills to fix this, infact, all
> > the scaffolding is in place.  Take a look in automake/lib/am/progs.am
> > and automake/lib/am/script.am, and the %SILENT% macro; you'd need to
> > replace occurences of `echo' with a variable (since we cannot just use
> > @ to silence the rules), that expands to either : (though, I think
> > "INSTALL file" would be nicer than complete silence) or echo depending
> > on if are using V=0 or V=1.
>
> Thinking about this a bit more, I don't really see the advantage here.
> You propose to replace, upon silent-rules and --enable-silent-rules,
> outputs like
>   /usr/bin/install -m 644 file /usr/local/share/foo/file
>
> with
>   INSTALL   file
>
> right?

Not quite, I am asking that make -s should not print
anything for the install part because these are not errors.