RE: make -s, how to make it quiet?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Ralf Wildenhues' [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: den 6 september 2008 21:04
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: make -s, how to make it quiet?
> 
> * Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:36:36PM CEST:
> >
> > But the same make works fine for u-boot, u-boot does not use auto* as
> > far as I know.
> 
> That's not proof that automake is at fault.  It could be, but I don't
> see it.
> 
> > "grep echo Makefile" in auto* generated Makefile shows
> > ECHO = echo
> >         echo " $(INSTALL_DATA) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$p"; \
> >         echo " $(RANLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$p"; \
> >         echo "$(LIBTOOL)  --mode=install $(INSTALL) $$p 
> > $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$p"; \
> >         echo " $(LIBTOOL)  --mode=install $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p 
> > $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/`echo $$p|sed
> 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'|sed '$(transform)'|sed 's/$$/$(EXEEXT)/'`"; \
> >         $(LIBTOOL)  --mode=install $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p 
> > $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/`echo $$p|sed
> 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'|sed '$(transform)'|sed 's/$$/$(EXEEXT)/'`; \
> >       rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/`echo $$p|sed 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'|sed 
> > '$(transform)'|sed
> 's/$$/$(EXEEXT)/'`; \
> >     unique=`for i in $$list; do echo $$i; done | \
> >     unique=`for i in $$list; do echo $$i; done | \
> >     @echo '$(COMPILE) -c $<'; \
> >     @echo '$(LTCOMPILE) -c $<'; \
> >     @echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use;"
> >     @echo "it deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild."
> >
> > Notice the "@echo '$(COMPILE) -c $<'; \"
> > Seems like the is a deliberate echo there
> 
> Yes.  But it doesn't mean that this command line was created by
> automake, and not put like this in Makefile.am.
> 
> I'm sorry, but if this is to be getting anywhere, you will either have
> to debug this further, or provide more detail to help us analyze it
> (like providing the automake version used for this package, and all the
> other stuff that I wondered about in my previous post).  For example,
> you could also post a link to a tarball of the package in question, then
> we could just look at it.
> 

OK, just tell me if it works for you. Can you generate a Makefile with auto* 
that
respects make's -s option? If you can I will dig further, I just assumed
that automake did something that disabled the -s option.

 Jocke