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

[Zebediah Figura]

On 9/30/20 3:08 AM, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> 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.
> 

Unfortunate. I would have appreciated a patch like this, as it helps me
gauge build progress, but if there's no way to do it portably then I'll
just drop it.

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