Re: [PATCH 0/4] Silence more build rules

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 19/01/2022 19:12, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-01-19 07:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jan 19 13:15, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> Jon Turney (4):
>>>    Cygwin: silence most custom build rules
>>>    Cygwin: silence dblatex when building PDFs
>>>    Cygwin: silence xsltproc when writing chunked html
>>>    Cygwin: silence xsltproc when writing manpages
>>>
>>>   winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am | 38 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>   winsup/doc/Makefile.am    | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>   2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> Hopefully these are now changed to be the helpful type of build rules 
> that output only "CC foo" when commands work and show the complete 
> command line and diagnostics when commands err?
> 
> Or do we have to now have to rerun with V=1 to see error diagnostics?

This just uses automake's standard way of silencing make [1], so the 
latter is correct. You will need to run 'make V=1' to see the command.

Doing the former with full generality using make seems very challenging. 
Please submit patches to automake for that! :)

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Automake-Silent-Rules.html