[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: Remove KBUILD_VERBOSE and quiet

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Sep 21 17:11:33 UTC 2015


On 21-09-15 12:23, Cédric Marie wrote:
> Le 2015-09-20 23:26, Arnout Vandecappelle a écrit :
>>> - modify qt.mk because it currently enables verbose mode if VERBOSE is defined
>>> and not empty, but my modification implies that VERBOSE may be equal to 0, and
>>> it should not enable verbose mode in that case!...
>>
>>  Well, just unset VERBOSE when V=0. So VERBOSE is either empty or 1. Similar
>> with how Config.in works.
> 
> Well, the idea was to set VERBOSE in Makefile and use its value in infrastructures.
> In autotools I need to make the difference between VERBOSE=1 (force verbose),
> VERBOSE=0 (force non-verbose), and VERBOSE not set (keep package default verbose
> level).

 Right, sorry, I forgot about that.

> 
> Unless we decide that finally there is no real interest in forcing non-verbose
> and adding a new possibility with 'make V=0'.
> I'm not so sure it can be very usefull, since it will only be taken into account
> by a few autotools package.

 A few? Isn't it going to be a very large subset of the 1041 autotools packages?

> If you want a quiet output, you'd rather use 'make -s'
> NB: I found it in Makefile, but it doesn't seem to be documented...

 True. 'make -s' is documented in the make documentation of course, but it would
make sense to also mention it in the buildroot documentation close to the V=1.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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