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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 6, 2007, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703061422580.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0703060116m166e2da7saeab82c67536558e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 3/6/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > ...
> >     CC builtin-grep.c
> > builtin-grep.c:187: warning: 'external_grep' defined but not used
> 
> Can I suggest printing the resulting object file instead of source?
> It is useful if you want rebuild just one file by mouse-copy-paste it
> into command line (the source file name for editor in case of
> error is already in error message).

I don't understand. If you want to fix what was triggering the warning, you have to edit the source, no? Besides, this warning is generated by the compiler, so I doubt we can do anything about it.

Ciao, Dscho