Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:50:48 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo |
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:31:34AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show > some nice status lines. This means we still get output when running in > silent mode. So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we > are in a suitable verbose build mode.
Nice idea. I will add it as soon as I start working on kbuild-next Same for your other two patches.
A lot of the kbuild stuff today is using lowercase to avoid all the typical SCREAMING in Makefiles so I may end up using $(kecho).
Sam
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