On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 10:58:16AM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote: > One fix would be to teach make(1) how to shut up on such messages. > GNU make(1) can do that already: > > -s, --silent, --quiet > Silent operation; do not print the commands as they are executed. > > $ gmake foo > gmake: 'foo' is up to date. > $ gmake foo -s ; echo $? > 0
We do something else with -s. (BTW, options after parameters are disgusting) If we can figure out a decent option name, silencing that message is trivial. I'm loathe to lose useful messages by default, so filtering ftp is bleh.