"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you're taking feature requests, one thing I'd like for the syntax-check ;-) Always. > target is for it to print out the name of each check it is running. We've > got quite alot of checks and so it just sits there for a long time using > 100% cpu and with no feedback as to what its doing. Good idea. Doing that, at first I thought I'd have to generate a makefile snippet and "-include" it, but finally realized there is a cleaner way: I've just done the following to coreutils, so it'll be pulled in soon, with the next sync: >From 44421c22a3c9aca7b7899b9fa8037d89dddaff20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:46:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maint: teach "make syntax-check" to print each check name as it's run * maint.mk (%.m): New rules to print each syntax-checking rule name, just before running its commands. ($(syntax-check-rules)): Depend on it. --- maint.mk | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk index 38724c2..65cdf5b 100644 --- a/maint.mk +++ b/maint.mk @@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ local-checks-available = \ makefile-check check-AUTHORS .PHONY: $(local-checks-available) +# Arrange to print the name of each syntax-checking rule just before running it. +$(syntax-check-rules): %: %.m +$(patsubst %, %.m, $(syntax-check-rules)): + @echo $(patsubst sc_%.m, %, $@) + local-check := $(filter-out $(local-checks-to-skip), $(local-checks-available)) syntax-check: $(local-check) -- 1.6.1.1.423.gc2891 -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list