How to make compiling less verbose?

Whyte · 09-14-2008, 10:21 AM

Hello! This is an autoconf/automake related question.

I just started using the Autotools on a project. However, when working on the code, and compiling, I have to scan through the huge walls of text to see if I had any compile warnings. How do I make compiling less verbose?

Example... turning this:

Quote:

if /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/msk0 -I../.. -IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/include/glib-2.0 -IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/lib/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -MT libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Tpo" \
-c -o libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.lo `test -f 'mskaddmul.c' || echo '../../../src/msk0/'`mskaddmul.c; \
then mv ".deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Tpo" ".deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Plo"; \
else rm -f ".deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/msk0 -I../.. "-IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/include/glib-2.0" "-IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/lib/glib-2.0/include" -g -O2 -MT libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Tpo -c ../../../src/msk0/mskaddmul.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.o
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/msk0 -I../.. "-IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/include/glib-2.0" "-IC:/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0/lib/glib-2.0/include" -g -O2 -MT libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.Tpo -c ../../../src/msk0/mskaddmul.c -o libmsk0_la-mskaddmul.o >/dev/null 2>&1

..into something like this:

Quote:

Building mskaddmul.lo...

Is it possible?

MS3FGX · 09-14-2008, 01:06 PM

Well, the easiest way would be to pipe "make" through grep. You could do something like:

Code:

echo "Building mskaddmul.lo..."
make | grep "warning"

That would only output any lines containing the line "warning". This might be a little too limiting however, you may want to expand that a bit or else you could end up missing more than you intended.