Re: Makefiles: Be less verbose when performing make rules by only printing the command being executed and the source and/or target file.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Shearman  writes:
> I've also modified tools/makerule to respect the "-s" flag passed into make.
>
> Alexandre suggested on IRC that I always print the destination file,
> but I want to make sure that the technical details of this patch are
> acceptable before making tweaks to the printed commands.

I've been thinking about this some more, and I don't think I'll put it
in. It's going to cause a lot of trouble and portability headaches,
for only a minor cosmetic gain.

This thing really belongs in make itself; it shouldn't be hard to
patch GNU make to have a mode where it only displays the command name
and target instead of the whole command line. Then it would work for
all projects, and wouldn't require adding complexity to the makefiles.

Makefiles: Be less verbose when performing make rules by only printing the command being executed and the source and/or target file.

[Robert Shearman]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> I've been thinking about this some more, and I don't think I'll put it
> in. It's going to cause a lot of trouble and portability headaches,
> for only a minor cosmetic gain.

I don't see how. It doesn't change the portability with other versions 
of make, and although I'm not an expert on shell programmings, I don't 
think I used an non-portable constructs there.

Makefiles: Be less verbose when performing make rules by only printing the command being executed and the source and/or target file.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Shearman  writes:
> I don't see how. It doesn't change the portability with other versions
> of make, and although I'm not an expert on shell programmings, I don't
> think I used an non-portable constructs there.

The MAKEFLAGS hack is certainly non portable, and won't behave right
on other makes. Using a shell script will also cause trouble on
Windows. The extra shell evaluation will also require some extra
quoting, that may be tricky to get right. It's really a lot of
trouble...

Makefiles: Be less verbose when performing make rules by only printing the command being executed and the source and/or target file.

[Robert Shearman]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Robert Shearman  writes:
> > I don't see how. It doesn't change the portability with other versions
> > of make, and although I'm not an expert on shell programmings, I don't
> > think I used an non-portable constructs there.
>
> The MAKEFLAGS hack is certainly non portable, and won't behave right
> on other makes. Using a shell script will also cause trouble on
> Windows. The extra shell evaluation will also require some extra
> quoting, that may be tricky to get right. It's really a lot of
> trouble...

I'm guessing you still believe this is the case, even with my latest patch.

Makefiles: Be less verbose when performing make rules by only printing the command being executed and the source and/or target file.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Shearman  writes:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > The MAKEFLAGS hack is certainly non portable, and won't behave right
> > on other makes. Using a shell script will also cause trouble on
> > Windows. The extra shell evaluation will also require some extra
> > quoting, that may be tricky to get right. It's really a lot of
> > trouble...
>
> I'm guessing you still believe this is the case, even with my latest patch.

Well, the quoting is fixed, but the rest isn't...