Re: [PATCH] ltmain.in: don't suppress output for PIC compilations

Nick Bowler <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:27:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2024-08-15 14:13, Ileana Dumitrescu wrote:
> Printing the differences on the second run seems like a better default,
> while keeping the option for -no-suppress for the complete log. Maybe
> adding an informational message about -no-suppress with the diff
> would help resolve some confusion?
> 
> However, I also wonder if the suppression should be decided by a
> verbosity option/variable rather than a compile mode option.

Yes, I was a bit surprised to discover that the existing --verbose
flag which is documented in the manual to

  "Print out ... additional messages not ordinary seen by default"

does not disable this suppression.  If it did, then presumably automated
build robots (at least when it comes to Automake-generated packages)
could just build with make LIBTOOLFLAGS=--verbose and be done.

Cheers,
  Nick