"Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> wrote on 2010/01/29 11:59:51: > > > And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose > > output is useful, automake already supports silent compilation. > > I know that > > Yes, but automake --silent is a different tool, perhaps it should > learn suppress the install mgs as well as other libtool msgs such > as relinking as finish msgs? > > I was refering to AM_SILENT_RULES, which supresses `make all' output; > so this is not a very controversial topic, it is already in automake > and used by several projects. Would you like to work on this feature? > The maintainers can't accept a patch that doesn't exist after all...
I am afraid I not very handy with the program language skills needed for this. The best I can do is a small patch to ltmain.sh for the most trivial part. Getting rid of the install msgs is over my head. Index: ltmain.sh =================================================================== --- ltmain.sh (revision 57662) +++ ltmain.sh (working copy) @@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@ relink_command=`$ECHO "X$relink_command" | $Xsed -e "s...@inst_prefix_dir@%%"` fi - func_warning "relinking \`$file'" + $opt_silent || func_warning "relinking \`$file'" func_show_eval "$relink_command" \ 'func_fatal_error "error: relink \`$file'\'' with the above command before installing it"' fi @@ -2269,7 +2269,7 @@ done test -n "$future_libdirs" && \ - func_warning "remember to run \`$progname --finish$future_libdirs'" + !$opt_silent && func_warning "remember to run \`$progname --finish$future_libdirs'" if test -n "$current_libdirs"; then # Maybe just do a dry run.