[U-Boot] [PATCH next] silence awk command display during build

[Kim Phillips]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:09:58 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 18:04:29 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > instead of silencing a somewhat complicated command that could break the
> > > build system if it goes wrong, use the mechanisms already in place if
> > > you want nice & concise output -- the --silent option to make.  i dont
> > > see a problem with this output you've quoted in the normal run of
> > > things.
> > 
> > I do. It is a change in behaviour and potentially braks a number of
> > build systems.
> 
> as Kim highlighted, this has already been "broken" somewhat by other commits 
> as sometimes output can be shown before the config line.  so if it was 

what commits?  awk is the only command in the area that isn't silenced
in make.  wrt the output...I believe that was distclean speaking..make
config only emits "configuring for blah.."

> breaking people, wouldnt they have complained by now ?

both the MAKEALL and make blah_config behaviour have changed since:

commit 866b5619fbc15db8a88954961bbc371c2c9c8b86
Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 11 18:52:36 2010 -0400

    Makefile: restore support for board shortcut targets

I was originally confused because build verbosity is has a reversed
sense in u-boot (make is by default noisy, needs silencing vs. linux'
make is by default 'neat', needs verbosity flag set to be noisy), but I
tend to agree with WD on this one.  Else, e.g., why isn't the mkconfig
invocation noisy?

Anyway, for backward noise compatible operation, the 1st patch in this
thread should be applied.

Kim