Re: Verbosity of genbki.pl

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut  writes:
> > Maybe we can take another look at this.  Right now, make -s world
> > produces *only* the following output:
> 
> > $ make -s world
> > Generating BKI files and symbol definition headers...
> > Generating fmgrtab.c, fmgroids.h, and fmgrprotos.h...
> > PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation successfully made. Ready to install.
> 
> > That seems kind of inconsistent and silly.  I suggest we remove the
> > output from these scripts.
> 
> FWIW, that'd be fine with me.  Teodor spoke against removing that output
> entirely, but perhaps he's the only one who thinks that way.  For myself,
> I've gotten mighty used to running "make -s" and expecting no output
> if all is well.  If I wanted to see what was getting rebuilt, I wouldn't
> use -s.

+1 for making them not output anything if all is well.

Thanks!

Stephen