Re: [PATCH] Make 'make' quieter while building git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 6, 2007, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejo2nffj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703061518250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> ...
>> ... I was suggesting to output something like this:
>> 
>> $ make
>> ...
>>     CC builtin-grep.o
>> builtin-grep.c:187: warning: 'external_grep' defined but not used
>> 
>> Notice "builtin-grep.o" (the ".o", not _.c_). IOW, we already
>> see builtin-grep.c when we need it (in the error/warning message),
>> BUT the builtin-grep.o is missing (and is useful for mouse-copy-paste).
>
> Ah! That explains it why I did not understand.

But doesn't "CC foo.o" look just simply WRONG? We compile foo.c to produce foo.o. An alternative that I could slightly more sympathize with would be something like this:

	CC builtin-grep.c => builtin-grep.o