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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 15 23:25:25 CEST 2010


Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201009151620.05329.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> i dont really want this to be completely silenced all the time.  introduce a 
> variable to prefix things with for people to control ?
> Q_BUILD = @
> ...
> 	$(Q_BUILD).....

NAK. Please do not add such mess to the Makefile. It does not belong
there.  If you want such behaviour, it should be added to the make
command itself.

I repeat myself, but all this cmd_* / quiet_cmd_* stuff etc. we see
in the Linux kernel Makefiles (and copied around into a zillion of
other projects) does not belong to the Makefile; it should be
implemented inside make itself.

I never understood why nobody bothered to solve the problem at the
root.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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