How to shorten make output (using qmake)

(tm) · 02-01-2007, 04:04 AM

Hi gurus!

Do you know any good pages describing how to make 'make' generate nice output?
Instead of
distcc arm-linux-g++ -c -pipe -DQWS -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -Wall -W -O2 -fPIC -pedantic -Wno-deprecated
...(a lot of other things)
-o yyy/xxx.o yyy/xxx.cpp

I'd prefer to see
Compiling xxx.cpp

The same with linking libraries

I use qmake to generate Makefiles

maju

graemef · 02-01-2007, 07:06 AM

The output comes from the gcc compiler. The compiler is doing a lot of work for you and it does like to chat. However much of the information it gives you is useful and you soon get used to reading it. If I remember correctly kDevelop takes that output and highlights really important issues (like errors) and clicking on an error will open the file and place the cursor on the right line. So you see that output can be useful.

(tm) · 02-01-2007, 07:33 AM

Thank you for your answer graemef!

>So you see that output can be useful
I don't want to get rid of all the output - that's easy.

>If I remember correctly kDevelop takes that output and highlights really important issues.
This is what I want to learn to do