[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Paul D. Smith 
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #58013 (project make):

FWIW I thought of another way to do this in a portable way:


submake: ; GNUMAKEFLAGS=--no-print-directory $(MAKE) recurse


or some form of that.

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[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Dmitry Goncharov 
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #58013 (project make):

Posix is explicit that -s and .SILENT are both about command lines.
If we wanted to be strictly posix conformant 'Entering directory' should be
printed even when -s is specified.
if .SILENT is stretched to suppress other messages such as 'Entering
directory' the question arises which other messages should .SILENT suppress?
e.g. if the directory is not executable make prints "permission denied".
Should "permission denied" be suppressed? What about $(warning ) messages, "is
up to date" messages, etc?

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[bug #58013] .SILENT no longer suppresses "Entering directory"

2020-03-21 Thread Dmitry Goncharov 
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58013 (project make):

"Entering directory' message when the user is not expecting one is a benign
backward incompatibility. i'd be more concern about the opposite.
Also, reinstating the prior behavior is incompatible with 4.3.

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