Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
** Proposal details
When you run make or make doc,
* All output will be saved to various log files, with the
exception of output directly from make(1).
* By default, no other output will be displayed on the
console, with one exception: if a build fails,
[...]
The user may optionally request additional output to be
printed; this is controlled with the VERBOSE=x flag.
Building the program (as opposed to documentation) is now *very* nice,
with
make -s bin
where -s is short for --silent to tell make not to print the commands she
runs.
We see errors or warnings from the changed files and nothing else. The
entire
source tree generates only seven warnings, all but one of which point to
code we
could write more clearly.
Under this proposal, we should choose an easy-to-type VERBOSE=x option
that
allows use to see the stderr stream from gcc and yacc and lex.