Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 3/4] build: Make build output pretty

[Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 10:26:50AM GMT, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02/06/2024 14.25, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Unless make V=1 is specified, silence make recipe echoing and print
> > an abbreviated line for major build steps.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >   Makefile                | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >   arm/Makefile.common     |  7 +++++++
> >   powerpc/Makefile.common | 11 +++++++----
> >   riscv/Makefile          |  5 +++++
> >   s390x/Makefile          | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> >   scripts/mkstandalone.sh |  2 +-
> >   x86/Makefile.common     |  5 +++++
> >   7 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> The short lines look superfluous in verbose mode, e.g.:
> 
>  [OBJCOPY] s390x/memory-verify.bin
> objcopy -O binary  s390x/memory-verify.elf s390x/memory-verify.bin
> 
> Could we somehow suppress the echo lines in verbose mode, please?
> 
> For example in the SLOF project, it's done like this:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/slof/slof/-/blob/master/make.rules?ref_type=heads#L48
> 
> By putting the logic into $CC and friends, you also don't have to add
> "@echo" statements all over the place.

And I presume make will treat the printing and compiling as one unit, so
parallel builds still get the summary above the error messages when
compilation fails. The way this patch is now a parallel build may show
the summary for the last successful build and then error messages for
a build that hasn't output its summary yet, which can be confusing.

So I agree that something more like SLOF's approach would be better.

Thanks,
drew