Re: Use $(SHELL) when running move-if-change

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:32:25PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm checking in this patch to bfd/doc/Makefile.am to use $(SHELL)
> > > when running move-if-change.  $(SHELL) should always be used with
> > > move-if-change or indeed any shell script.  I suppose this one went
> > > unfixed for so long because it is only run when recreating info
> > > files, which normally does not need to be done when using a released
> > > version.
> > 
> > While we're discussing move-if-change here is a trivial patch that has
> > been sitting in my tree for some time.  I always build with make -s,
> > so this bugs me perhaps more than most.  Like mv(1), move-if-change
> > should be silent, too.  Okay for mainline?
> > 
> > 2004-11-01  Ben Elliston  <bje@au.ibm.com>
> > 
> > 	* move-if-change: Don't produce any output, just like mv(1).
> 
> Personally I would just as soon keep the top level files in synch with
> gcc as much as possible.  So, how about if it is accepted for gcc,
> it's OK for binutils?
> 
> If we want to get fancy, we could try this patch:

Please.  I find the output valuable when I'm trying to see what was
rebuilt (and the silencing valuable for make -s, too).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz