From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:31:52 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Silencing the build In-Reply-To: References: <1404906414-15197-1-git-send-email-fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> <20140715212814.1dfcce43@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140717203152.2e18fb9b@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Fabio Porcedda, On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:40:46 +0200, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > > Hum, yes, but why? The entire build process is anyway very noisy, so is > > there really a point in silencing specifically this part? What is the > > ultimate goal you're trying to achieve here? > > My ultimate goal is to be able using the "-s" flags to silence all > parts, because sometimes i just want to build and view only ">>> *" > messages, errors, warning without anything else. > > As example the "toolchain-external" target already do that when the > "-s" option is used. > > I've silenced only this part because it was easy and it's anyway an improvement. > > Maybe i can work on silencing other parts too if the feature is desired. Ok, thanks for the explanation. I guess we need to decide whether having a fully silent build in "make -s" is a goal we should aim at. It seems like a good idea to me, but I don't have a really strong opinion about this. What do others think about this? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com