[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] shorten make output

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 19:26:33 Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:45:04PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > IMO this approach makes the output, not "beautiful", but
> > "clueless-user-friendly"
>
> I have not checked if that actually is what the patch does, but I think
> it is supposed to make the output developer-friendly by making the
> warning/error messages easier to spot.

Exactly. For users it might be better to print full command lines, thus 
producing more detailed bug reports. For this reason, it could be turned off 
by default.

As for developers, we should remember these commands by heart already :) They 
rarely change and just occupy screen space.