[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

Change by Irit Katriel : -- versions: -Python 3.11, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

Ken Williams added the comment: Thanks Irit - yes, the behavior with 3.9 and 3.10 is the same, and their Makefiles seem to have the same unguarded `echo` statements emitting the output. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

Irit Katriel added the comment: Ken, the output you posted is for 3.7 and 3.8. Is this reproducible on 3.9+? (3.8 and lower are no longer maintained). -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker

[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

Ken Williams added the comment: I poked around a bit more, and it looks like a fair number of the installation messages are coming from `Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py`, which is using `distutils.log` to show what it's doing: log.debug("not copying %s (up-to-date)", script)

[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

Ken Williams added the comment: This situation still seems to be the case in 2022. The output of `make altinstall` has thousands of lines like /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Lib/test/__main__.py /usr/local/lib/python3.8/test /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py

[issue29985] make install doesn't seem to support --quiet

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: When installing from source, the --quiet option works with "configure" and a bare "make": $ ./configure --quiet $ make --quiet However, it doesn't seem to work when passed to "make install" (and "make altinstall", etc). I tried a number of