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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:54:29AM +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> 
> this patch makes build output much shorter and, IMO, more pleasant to the eye. 
> Instead of long gcc command lines only 'CC filename' or 'LINK filename' is 
> printed. The idea and the implementation are taken from linux kernel build 
> system. It can be turned off with 'make V=1'.
> 
> As I mentioned on -cvslog, with the latest changes to the build system, the 
> last linking command takes almost 3 screens on my monitor, and it becomes 
> tiresome to scroll back and check for warnings all the time. With this patch, 
> the warnings are much more noticable. Even better, there is more motivation 
> to fix them, because the output then becomes even more beautiful.

IMNSHO this is a bad idea, more so if enabled by default.  I surely want
to see what options the compiler is using.

If you just want to skip the linking phase, add something like the
following line to the Makefile:

nolink: $(MPLAYER_DEPS) $(MENCODER_DEPS)

Diego