"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.
