Re: Suppress automatic rule printing

[Eric Reischer]

The best way (in my opinion) to accomplish this would to have Make use 
the $(RM) variable, if present.  That way, if you wanted to suppress 
that command from being printed, you could set "RM := @rm -f" as a rule.

-E

On 01/19/2011 01:41 PM, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> Well, it is not what he was asking, but... maybe an acceptable solution, useful in other 
> situations, would be, to filter the output of make through some Perl script.  I do this 
> myself as a routine matter.  When people ask, why do you have a wrapper make.bat and not 
> just call "make.exe" directly, I say, calling programs directly is like riding 
> a horse without a saddle, it is possible..., but painful and not fun.
>
> So I have a wrapper, in which I prepare the call to make, and then take the 
> output out of make and do whatever I want with it, for example, if make is 
> called with parallel option, I save the errors output for the end, or 
> suppress/interpret any error messages which my users find too cryptic.
>
> Mark
>
> (...)
>    
> > Is there a way to suppress printing out built-in commands that GNU-make
> > executes?
> >      
> a way to suppress printing out this command as its being executed?
>
> There is no way, short of editing the code, to silence that message
> unfortunately.
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