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Re: .SILENT: clobbered by .SILENT: with_target


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: .SILENT: clobbered by .SILENT: with_target
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:08:12 -0500
User-agent: Evolution 3.36.5-0ubuntu1

On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 14:22 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote:
> > You can see that this example mimics your .silent example. 
> > Your makefile provided a prerequisite to .SILENT. Make then knows
> > that .SILENT has a prerequisite.
> 
> I agree that it's consistent syntax, but semantically it's bad.  The
> expectation and the manual both imply that .SILENT: will have a
> global effect, and a  real union-of-effects would have .SILENT:
> meaning everything and .SILENT: some_target redundant.  The root of
> the problem is that the rule syntax has been recycled for an
> unrelated purpose, especially so for directives without
> prerequisites.

Another option you can consider is to add:

  MAKEFLAGS += --silent

to enforce silent mode.

This doesn't address the issue you raise but maybe it will help with
the problem you're trying to solve.




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