Re: Make, MAKE_TERMOUT, color escape sequences, TTYs, and PTYs

2016-06-01 Thread Brian Vandenberg
On the one hand I can see some value in this effort, but it seems simpler for build maintainers to overtly request colorized output if that's what they want. If the tools start generating escape sequences for other than colorizing text it may not be sufficient, but in general it seems like a bette

Re: Make, MAKE_TERMOUT, color escape sequences, TTYs, and PTYs

2016-06-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 15:06 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > However, if programs start observing those variables, that seems > highly likely to lead to potential breakage in makefiles, for one key > reason: those variables remain in the environment even for programs > run with stdout/stderr redirecte