[MPlayer-DOCS] Problem compiling DOCS

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:54:31PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 16:43, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
> > However, I am open to suggestions.  Torinthiel also said he prefers to
> > see some of the commands.  But we should settle on some sensible rule
> > IMO.  Is there some established standard for what to suppress in
> > (MPlayer) Makefiles?  Or should we simply remove all @?
> 
> I say remove. I like to see what went wrong *if* something does go wrong.

I agree totally. One of the biggest reasons I hate automake/libtool is
that it uses @ in combination with echo to LIE to you about which
commands it's running (so you see the commands if _should_ be running
if it weren't doing crap behind your back, instead of the crap it's
really doing behind your back...).

IMO the sorts of ugly for loops and stuff people ususally use @ for in
makefiles _do_ _not_ _belong_ in makefiles. You can do the same
effects by arranging the dependencies correctly.

Rich