[rfc] Colorized output for GNU make?

2011-09-27 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! First, here's a picture of what this is about: [1]. Wrappers like colormake [2] have a number of problems: they cannot distinguish certain lines of output (like commands being executed and output produced by these very commands), they take more resources than needed just to name a few. S

Re: suggestion: new make function

2011-09-27 Thread Edward Welbourne
> I have limited sympathy for this type of situation, "multifile > compilation" is against the general idea of make. On the other hand, running ar once per .o file cost time (at least) quadratic in the number of files, when I tried it. So "multifile archiving" is perfectly standard - and it's usu