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

[The Wanderer]

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.

That's the rationale for it, yes, and that is a worthwhile capability to
have. However, to my mind, achieving it by defaulting to hiding the
complicated details smacks of "you don't need to worry your pretty
little head about that" / "you couldn't understand that anyway, so we
won't show it to you", and so I am very much not fond of it. I have no
objection to having it available to allow people who are looking for the
errors to spot them, but people who do not want it should not have to go
out of their way *on every single compilation attempt* to avoid it.

I would not object to having it present, but disabled by default.

I would also not object to having it present, controlled by a configure
option which defaults to "enabled" - because then I could add the
disabling option to my automatic "re-run configure with my required
options" script, and never have to worry about it again.

I would, and do, object to having it present and enabled by default with
no way to turn it off such that a simple 'make' presents me with the
unmodified complete output.

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       The Wanderer

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