Re: 2.5.69-bk19 "make" messages much less informative

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Mon, 26 May 2003 19:44:06 -0700


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>If something stands out clearly, people tend to notice it. Assuming only
>one person gets annoyed enough to submit fixes for the warnings, this is
>a net win.
>V=0 still works, only the default was changed.

I think the productivity that I would lose from such a build
environment would exceed the fixing of one compiler warning within
a couple of days, perhaps even sooner, and I am only one developer.

Many thanks to John Levon for pointing out that V=1 still
works. Here is a proposed patch, which I have already committed
to my tree.

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--- linux-2.5.69-bk19/Makefile 2003-05-26 12:26:26.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/Makefile 2003-05-26 18:00:31.000000000 -0700
@@ -107,15 +107,13 @@
# If it is set to "silent_", nothing wil be printed at all, since
# the variable $(silent_cmd_cc_o_c) doesn't exist.

-# To put more focus on warnings, less verbose as default
-
ifdef V
ifeq ("$(origin V)", "command line")
KBUILD_VERBOSE = $(V)
endif
endif
ifndef KBUILD_VERBOSE
- KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0
+ KBUILD_VERBOSE = 1
endif

ifdef C
-
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