> > > Why are many of the build lines in bsd.lib.mk hidden with leading @'s, > > > so that they don't display in the build? This is useless, it hides > > > things that go wrong, and hardly belongs here, it seems to me. > > > > > > > How often do your calls to ld, mv and rm fail? > > That's not the point, the point is that current is a bleeding edge > thing, not production, and the details should not be hidden, there's no > possible justification for that.
Sure there is, in the same manner that we don't use 'cc -v' as the command line parameters to see *all* the excruciating details of how a program is compiled. The '@' calls are not considered important details, and as such are hidden. If we include *EVERYTHING* then finding the actual problem is often much harder due to trying to wade through the noise. The '@' commands help to reduce the noise, giving us a better signal/noise ratio. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
