Re: [PATCH] gdb/doc: use silent-rules.mk in the Makefile

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:00:23 +0100
> 
> Make use of silent-rules.mk when building the GDB docs.
> 
> Most of these are pretty straight forward, adding ECHO_GEN and then
> lots of SILENCE prefixes.
> 
> I added a new SILENT_QUIET_FLAG to silent-rules.mk, this is like
> SILENT_FLAG, but is set to '-q' when in silent mode, this can be used
> with the 'dvips' and 'texi2dvi' commands, both of which use '-q' to
> mean: only report errors.
> 
> As with the rest of the GDB makefiles, I've only converted the
> "generation" rules to use silent-rules.mk, the install / uninstall
> rules are left unchanged.
> 
> There are still a few "generation" targets that produce output, there
> seems to be no flag to silence the 'tex' and 'pdftex' commands which
> some recipes use, I've not worried about these for now, e.g. the
> refcard.dvi and refcard.pdf targets still produce some output.
> 
> Luckily, when doing a 'make all' in the gdb/ directory, we only build
> the info docs by default, and those rules are now nice and silent, so
> a complete GDB build is now looking nice and quiet by default.
> ---
>  gdb/doc/Makefile.in | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  gdb/silent-rules.mk |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)

Doesn't this silence too much?  Can you should the output of each rule
after the changes?

Thanks.