On 07/17/2012 07:05 AM, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini > <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> At least we should find a way to silence all messages that are not >> real warnings or errors... Otherwise, adding silent rules support >> would just be pointless. > > I have been asking about this on SO, and there has been a little > progress towards a resolution: > http://stackoverflow.com/q/11498108/429232 > > Look at the answer involving grep. > Duh, that's viable, but also quite horrible IMHO :-/ I hope we'll not have to resort to something like that ...
> Is there any portable way to grep > away the loading messages without losing the exit status? > Yes: using temporary files :-( Since the lack of silent rules for elisp compilation is not a regression, I'd rather wait to implement them until we have a proper, non-hacky solution. Maybe we could try to write to the Emacs list for help at this point... Thanks, Stefano