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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:12:32 Kim Phillips wrote:
> 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.."

it is not tied strictly to disclean.  run config targets multiple times and 
see the same thing.  `make ve8313; make ve8313`.

> > breaking people, wouldnt they have complained by now ?
> 
> both the MAKEALL and make blah_config behaviour have changed since:

behavior changed !== breakage

> 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?

yes, the current behavior is pretty squirrelly imo
-mike
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