Re: Making output of make more beautiful

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Paul, Vincent, * Paul Smith wrote on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:22:51PM CEST: > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:04 +0200, Vincent Torri wrote: > > Is it possible to add 2 features : > > > > 1) adding a percentage at the beginning of the line > > People often ask for this, but it's not possible: a pe

Re: running tests under in a tests/ directory

2009-06-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Peter Johansson wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It is not necessary to specify top_builddir because that is where the Makefile is written and the directory where the build is performed. As you say, specifying $(top_srcdir) may cause harm since it is likely to break VPATH bui

Re: Making output of make more beautiful

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:04 +0200, Vincent Torri wrote: > Is it possible to add 2 features : > > 1) adding a percentage at the beginning of the line People often ask for this, but it's not possible: a percentage of what? The way make works, it has absolutely no idea how much work there is left to

Making output of make more beautiful

2009-06-10 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, automake provides a way to replace the command line generated in a Makefile by GEN output-file Is it possible to add 2 features : 1) adding a percentage at the beginning of the line 2) displaying the lines with a color according to what is done (compilation, execution or error) ? (