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

[Ivo]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 23:38, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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 don't see much use for this behaviour (although I must admit I have 
implemented it once myself for another project). If you want the warnings 
and errors to stand out and suppress the (long) compiler command lines, you 
could just as easily do:

make >/dev/null

This'll only show the errors and warnings, which are written to stderr.

--Ivo