Re: make --silent

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 19:06 +0200, Lanoxx wrote:

> 
> I tried to ask in #gtk+ why they are using the SILENT_RULES makro, but 
> are not using the silent make flag, and someone tried to explain to me, 
> that this also silences warnings, but as can be seen below, it does not. 
> I also dont see a real benefit in these make output which only seems to 
> output which folders make is entering.

Because people running build servers want the complete verbose logs in
order to debug problems.

It's easy enough to filter the output; we should really patch jhbuild to
do so.  It's just hard to do in the curent code.