[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] build system: Further improve quiet mode

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>> Paul Brook wrote:
>>>> BTW, what do people think of printing CFLAGS?  I find it not all that
>>>> exciting but if people like it, I'm happy to go with it.
>>>>
>>> I don't find it that interesting either. Especially given we use at least
>>> two different sets of CFLAGS, and you really also need to know which
>>> compiler is being invoked. You can always use V=1.
>>>
>> That was my thinking too.  The more noise in the build output, the less
>> useful the quiet mode is wrt catching warnings.
> 
> So what about this?
> 
> 
> Laurent
> 
> - Make user-mode build process quieter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
> 
> Index: Makefile.target
> ===================================================================
> --- Makefile.target	(revision 6463)
> +++ Makefile.target	(working copy)
> @@ -725,9 +725,9 @@
>  endif # !CONFIG_USER_ONLY
>  
>  gdbstub-xml.c: $(TARGET_XML_FILES) feature_to_c.sh
> -	rm -f $@
> +	$(call quiet-command,rm -f $@)
>  ifeq ($(TARGET_XML_FILES),)
> -	echo > $@
> +	$(call quiet-command,echo > $@)
>  else
>  	$(SHELL) $(SRC_PATH)/feature_to_c.sh $@ $(TARGET_XML_FILES)
>  endif

I was thinking in this direction already as well. But please go for a
canonical output, something like

  GENERATE ppc-softmmu/gdbstub-xml.c

(Likely requires adjusting indention of the other rules.)

Jan

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