[bug #65600] `--silent` option should also silence `$(info ...)`

[Alejandro Colomar]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #65600 (group make):


[comment #0 original submission:]
> Currently `--silent` option only silences the output of the executed
commands.

No.  --silent (and .SILENT) don't silence the output of any command.  Where
did you get that from?

> Some users of make use `echo` or `$(info ..)` to summarize what is being
done in a recipe and use `@` to silence the executed commands.

No.  `@` is to not print the command before executing it.  For silencing the
command, you'd need to >/dev/null

> However it is not possible to silence `echo` or `$(info ..)`. 

Use `echo ... >/dev/null`, although I don't know why you'd want to silence
echo(1).  If you don't want echo(1), just remove it.

> IMHO silencing the output is important in user-facing applications that
still make use of makefiles, e.g., an application that creates a simulation
binary from provided code.
> 
> I propose that `--silence` should include `$(info ..)`, but not `$(warning
..)` and `$(error ..)`. What do you think?

No.

If you want to silence make(1), you can `make >/dev/null`.


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