On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Vincent Torri wrote: > > The best would be to add an argument to configure script, so that i can > > choose one of the two kinds of display. > > As long as abreviated display doesn't become the default, this seems > ok to me. I absolutely abhor builds which don't detail everything > they are doing because then it becomes a bloody nightmare to fix > things if the build doesn't work (which is often the case with such > makefiles). I do understand that some people prefer to work with > blinders on though. and some people prefer to just look at what's important. fwiw, I add a "--disable-echo" to any interesting (non-trivial) configure script. "make -n" always works (for any properly-constructed makefile). afterthought: Not that it works well with libtool - its notion of verbose and quiet is haphazard. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
