Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] shorten make output

[Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:54 +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> this patch makes build output much shorter and, IMO, more pleasant to the eye. 
> Instead of long gcc command lines only 'CC filename' or 'LINK filename' is 
> printed. The idea and the implementation are taken from linux kernel build 
> system. It can be turned off with 'make V=1'.
> 
> As I mentioned on -cvslog, with the latest changes to the build system, the 
> last linking command takes almost 3 screens on my monitor, and it becomes 
> tiresome to scroll back and check for warnings all the time. With this patch, 
> the warnings are much more noticable. Even better, there is more motivation 
> to fix them, because the output then becomes even more beautiful.
> 
> The patch is slightly incomplete, it only hides the most popular build 
> commands. It can be finished in no time, but I wanted to here the opinion of 
> other developers first.

I think the idea is good. I haven't looked at the implementation so no
comments on that.

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