[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: Remove KBUILD_VERBOSE and quiet

["Cédric Marie" <cedric.marie@openmailbox.org>]

Hi,

The more I try to fix it, the more I believe there is nothing to fix... 
:)

Arnout has pointed out that KBUILD_VERBOSE should be kept, because it 
was a nice way to set verbose level in Kbuild packages, without having 
to modify any .mk files.

I have also recently realized that autotools infrastructure didn't need 
anything more to have support for V=0 or 1.
When V is in the command line, it is exported to all sub-makes. As a 
consequence, an autotools package already sees the value of V. It 
doesn't check whether it comes from the command line or not.

I thought there was a problem because I first checked with autotools 
packages that did not support verbose level, and couldn't see any 
difference. With libpthsem, I have realized that V=0/1 was already 
supported.

The fact that V is exported is not enough for Kbuild packages, because 
they also check that it comes from the command line. That's why they 
need KBUILD_VERBOSE to be exported. Autotools packages don't check that 
V comes from the command line.

So, in the end, I think it would be stupid to convert V=0/1 into 
VERBOSE=0/1, and then, in pkg-autotools.mk, convert VERBOSE=0/1 into 
V=0/1 - which is already set and exported - again!...

So, to sum up:
- we keep KBUILD_VERBOSE for Kbuild packages
- we don't need to change anything for autotools packages
- If CMake is the only one that needs a conversion (from V to VERBOSE), 
wouldn't it be more simple to keep on exporting VERBOSE as it is done 
currently?

In the end, the only thing I could do, is just to remove "quiet" :)
I can still provide a patch for that, if it makes sense.

Sorry for the time we have spent on this subject, while there is - 
almost - nothing to change in the end...
There are many subtleties in makefiles that I was not aware of, in the 
first place.


-- 
C?dric