[PATCH] makefiles: Optionally emit automake-style "silent" output.

[Rémi Bernon]

On 9/30/20 9:12 AM, Jeff Smith wrote:
> FWIW, when I attempted a similar patch last September,
> I got pushback from Alexandre due to him not considering
> nested macro expansion as portable.
> I also got pushback against enabling by default.
> 
> It seems that the conservative approach would be to
> 1. make the default for silent rules disabled, and
> 2. only output the WINE_V_ rules to the Makefile
>     if silent rules are enabled.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:42 PM Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The subject line of this patch may be a little misleading, upon
>> reflection, since it's enabled by default. That fact could easily be
>> changed; I only did so since automake also enables its silent output by
>> default.
>>
> 

Note that you can also enable fully silent build by defining a .SILENT: 
rule, in a wrapper Makefile for instance. I'm personally not really sure 
how useful a semi-silent build is.
-- 
Rémi Bernon <rbernon at codeweavers.com>