[U-Boot] Nested Makefiles

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 18:03, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> I think it is fundamentally wrong to implement such a feature (let's
> call it "terse make output") in the Makefiles of many projects, using
> a lot of trickery and magic.  If a specific verbosity of make output
> is needed, this should most naturally be implemented as a feature in
> make itself - we already have make options like "-d" (for very verbose
> output) or "-s" (for silent mode), so why not add a new verbosity
> level which produces exactly the short output format you want?
>
>
> So yes, patches are welcome, but these should go directly to the make
> mailing lists / patch system, see
> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=make

not to kick sand just for fun, but this is an example of you getting
final veto power.  this has been requested by many people, and ive
seen very few people against it (off the top of my head, i can only
recall you, but i havent looked at previous threads to be sure).

i'm not saying your logic is without merit, just that in all
practicality, i dont think it's going to happen the way you desire.
-mike