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

["Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>]

On Mon Jun 3, 2024 at 6:26 PM AEST, 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.

I'll could try a bit harder at it, this was a pretty quick hack.

I probably prefer the cmd_cc style that Linux uses rather than
overloading CC. But maybe that's more work.

Thanks,
Nick