AM_SILENT_RULES

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Nov 5 16:27:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 16:17 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 04:04 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:43 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I was looking at a package's build logs to see what kinds of problems gcc is
> >> reporting for the code and found a lot of lines with "CC  object_name" and
> >> nothing else. This is really not helpful when you scan koji build logs or look
> >> for problems. Should we have a policy of requiring "--silent=no" configure
> >> option for packages that are hiding gcc warnings?
> Yes, definitely.
> 
> > GCC warnings will still show up, otherwise it means you don't have a
> > high enough level of warnings in the package.
> >
> > V=1 passed to make is enough to show the full command-lines.
> Unless a package already uses "V" otherwise.
> 
> > I don't think that disabling silent would help one bit if you're just
> > looking for warnings, because it would show them anyway.
> Wrong, Broken CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS don't show up as warning even when 
> they kill a build.

Those weren't warnings in the first place, and certainly not gcc
warnings, which was Steve's original question about.




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