Re: [PATCH] Tidy up 'make' output

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:57:47 -0400
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 10:44 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > When thousands of long, wrapped lines full of command line options
> > and file names are scrolling by on your terminal, it is very hard
> > to pick out the irregularities in the build process, such as error
> > and warnings.
> 
> I like the idea, but the massive use of "override" doesn't looks
> right. I'd rather see variables with different names used throughout
> the makefiles.  Linux makefiles don't use "override" at all.
> "override" should be the last resort if everything else fails.

Ok.  Well, are implicit make rules ever used in the makefiles?  If so,
we would have to make them explicit in order to use a different
compiler variable.  I tried to touch the least number of things
possible with my patch.

If you wish, I can take a crack at eliminating the use of 'override'
and using a different set of make variables for the instrumented calls
to commands.

Regards,
Colin