Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Jason, > > thanks for your work. While I'm not to judge this, and pretty > indifferent about it, a couple of question to clarify a bit: > > * Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:36:55PM CET: >> This patch prefixes the compile and link commands in the generated >> Makefile's with $(AM_PFX). It leaves AM_PFX undefined, so the default >> behavior is unchanged. If a package maintainer wants to change the >> output, (s)he can do something like: AM_PFX = @echo "$@ ..."; > > What's the improvement over > AM_MAKEFLAGS = -s
It can be set by the configure script so that it affects even the top-level make invocation. It can be used to give some indication of the progress of the build without echoing the actual commands: AM_PFX="@echo $@; " It might be more portable. I'm not sure how portable the -s flag is. > > except for that this only works starting from the second level 'make' > invocation, and why does the patch silence the usual compile/link > commands for programs and libraries but not for, say, texinfo output? There's no reason it couldn't be done for texinfos and other things also. I wasn't sure if it would be useful, so I didn't add it. How likely is it that the build command for texinfo stuff will exceed a line or two? thanks, - jason
