Re: [PATCH] Make the installation targets a little less chatty

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

You obviously did not test that X-<. V=1 does not work at all for me. This is what I get.

    ...
    install git '/home/junio/git-test/bin'
    :SETUP BUILTIN git-format-patch; rm -f '/home/junio/git-test/bin/git-format-patch' && ln '/home/junio/git-test/bin/git' '/home/junio/git-test/bin/git-format-patch'; ...
    ...
    /bin/sh: :SETUP: command not found
    /bin/sh: :SETUP: command not found
    /bin/sh: :SETUP: command not found
    /bin/sh: :SETUP: command not found
    ...

Two problems and a half.

 (0) You do not report the creation of target directory done
     with "install -d", so without $V there is no way to tell if
     things are installed in the expected location.

 (1) Obviously : and whatever action message needs to be
     separated so that it becomes a no-op command ':' followed
     by parameters;

 (2) Even with that ":SETUP: command not found" fixed, it now
     makes the command line twice as long as before for $V case,
     which makes it harder to diagnose a problem when Makefile
     goes wrong.

I think the way QUIET_CC and friends are done is quite sensible and does not have this problem, especially (3). With V=1 it just becomes transparent, and that is what we would want.