Re: Silent/quiet builds

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 19:32:30 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> Question for GP really, but on the list for others to chime in as needed.
> 
> In the CG:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/useful-make-variabl
> es we already have a way of quietening the output.  This is used in
> particular in make with the font files and would, I think, reduce the make
> output significantly (can't try it yet, I'm in the middle of yet another
> complete doc build).  It seems wrong not to use this facility more - is it
> used? Should most of my "make quieter" changes be contingent on this
> variable being set?

I would have wished that QUITE_BUILD=1 became the default, but some other 
developer was against changing the default behavior to be less verbose 
(something like "but if the build ever fails, you immediately have all debug 
output available to check where the error is")...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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