Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2014-03-11 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Gurjeet Singh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > Gurjeet Singh writes: > > > > I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, > > > > specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2014-03-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gurjeet Singh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Gurjeet Singh writes: > > > I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, > > > specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing to be done for `all' " > > > messages, since they don't add much v

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 11/26/13, 1:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > A patch to use non-recursive make to construct the backend would be very > > much appreciated. We've talked about it at least two times, but no one > > seems interested enough to put in the effort. > > References? What, yo

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 11/26/13, 1:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > A patch to use non-recursive make to construct the backend would be very > much appreciated. We've talked about it at least two times, but no one > seems interested enough to put in the effort. References? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pg

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > I'm pretty suspicious of cute changes like this to the makefiles. > They too often have unexpected side-effects. (I'm still pissed off > about having to manually remove objfiles.txt to get it to rebuild a .o > file, for instance.) Yeah, I've been bitten by that as well and I do

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Gurjeet Singh writes: > > I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, > > specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing to be done for `all' " > > messages, since they don't add much value, and just ad to the clutter.

Re: [HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh writes: > I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, > specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing to be done for `all' " > messages, since they don't add much value, and just ad to the clutter. Why don't you just use "make -s" if you don't want to see

[HACKERS] Cleaner build output when not much has changed

2013-11-26 Thread Gurjeet Singh
I was looking for ways to reduce the noise in Postgres make output, specifically, I wanted to eliminate the "Nothing to be done for `all' " messages, since they don't add much value, and just ad to the clutter. Most of the solutions I have seen propose grepping out the noisy parts. But one of them