From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Makefile: suppress error message from shell
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:03:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090719140316.GB25417@feather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6233D0.1060502@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:42:56PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> In particular, on systems which do not have 'pkg-config' installed,
> every invocation of make issues the following message:
>
> /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found
>
> Suppress the message by redirecting stderr to the bit-bucket.
[...]
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ AR = ar
> # CFLAGS += -O0 -DDEBUG -g3 -gdwarf-2
> #
>
> -HAVE_LIBXML=$(shell pkg-config --exists libxml-2.0 && echo 'yes')
> +HAVE_LIBXML=$(shell pkg-config --exists libxml-2.0 2>/dev/null && echo 'yes')
Seems sensible; this way, systems without pkg-config will simply end up
without HAVE_LIBXML.
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 20:42 [PATCH 3/5] Makefile: suppress error message from shell Ramsay Jones
2009-07-19 14:03 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2009-07-20 20:21 ` Christopher Li
2009-07-21 21:50 ` Ramsay Jones
2009-07-22 0:35 ` Christopher Li
2009-07-24 18:40 ` Ramsay Jones
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