[U-Boot] U-BOOT quiet build

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Aug 27 11:05:15 CEST 2009


On Thursday 27 August 2009 04:45:01 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > you mean quiet build like you see with Linux/busybox/uClibc/etc...,
> > u-boot doesnt support it.  Wolfgang rejected the idea.
>
> That's not correct. I did not reject the _idea_.
>
> I just rejected the implementation. I think it is fundamentally wrong
> and broken to implement this feature which seems to be high valued in
> many projects again and again and again in each and every project's
> Makefile code.
>
> Instead, it should be implemented once where it actually belongs: in
> the make tool itself, so that _all_ projects can benefit from it
> without adding complexity and increased build times to their
> Makefiles.

in reality, these equate to the same thing.  the make tool isnt going to 
implement this stuff since it's pretty much impossible to cover all cases.

automake has already integrated support so all automake-based packages get 
support for free.
-mike
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