[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. ___ Reply to this item at:

[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

[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.