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

[Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:10:53AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 23:38, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > Hello, On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:45:04PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > >> IMO this approach makes the output, not "beautiful", but
> > >> "clueless-user-friendly"
> > >
> > > I have not checked if that actually is what the patch does, but I
> > > think it is supposed to make the output developer-friendly by making
> > > the warning/error messages easier to spot.
> >
> > That's the rationale for it, yes, and that is a worthwhile capability to
> > have. However, to my mind, achieving it by defaulting to hiding the
> > complicated details smacks of "you don't need to worry your pretty
> > little head about that" / "you couldn't understand that anyway, so we
> > won't show it to you", and so I am very much not fond of it. I have no
> > objection to having it available to allow people who are looking for the
> > errors to spot them, but people who do not want it should not have to go
> > out of their way *on every single compilation attempt* to avoid it.
> 
> I don't see much use for this behaviour (although I must admit I have 
> implemented it once myself for another project). If you want the warnings 
> and errors to stand out and suppress the (long) compiler command lines, you 
> could just as easily do:
> 
> make >/dev/null
> 
> This'll only show the errors and warnings, which are written to stderr.

I think i should mention colorgcc which nicely colorizes warnings and errors
(especially if one hacks it a little to produce whatever color one wants for
whatever warning like i did (http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/michael/trunk/patches/))

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