Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:07:22 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> Cc: FreeBSD ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PRs ports/56767...56858 Message-ID: <3F65490A.7060403@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <3F653E66.9040601@ciam.ru> References: <20030914153245.79ba8838.tkato@prontomail.com> <3F644E7A.1040806@fillmore-labs.com> <20030914230644.447e9891.tkato@prontomail.com> <3F6479F7.6040706@fillmore-labs.com> <20030915023557.5434f58c.tkato@prontomail.com> <3F64D002.5010605@fillmore-labs.com> <3F653E66.9040601@ciam.ru>
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Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>
>> KATO Tsuguru wrote:
>>
>>> The function you want is availabe if "ECHO_MSG=${ECHO}" is
>>> added to /etc/make.conf. Perhaps this way is appropriate
>>> to become default value....
>>
>> Hmmm... I consider it silly if a port tells me
>> 'YOU CAN BUILD ME WITH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS' if I just do
>> a makesum or checksum. Most of the ports save me their
>> messages, but tell me when something goes wrong. It does not
>> work with every port, but I would like it if bento
>> builds with -s by default, that will save us the
>> repeated option reminders on a lot of ports.
>>
>> Redefining ECHO_MSG is definetively bad, because it kills
>> every error message.
>
> Agree. I think we need to have different ECHO* command: for ports system
> messages and errors, and port specific notify messages.
> It's not obviously now what I need to use ECHO, ECHO_CMD or ECHO_MSG and
> when.
Ok, a proposal:
ECHO_CMD => not suppressable
for the last message before you die or when something should be
written to a file, pipe, etc. Also when an output is the result
of the build (ie 'make maintainer`).
ECHO_MSG => suppressable, but not likely to be
build progress, error messages, warnings, anything short relating
to the current build. An error free build should produce the same
results with ECHO_MSG=${TRUE}
ECHO => suppressable
anything you want the user to know, but may be known by having read
it before or anything that is not important in a non-interactive
environment (portupgrade or bento) and can be deduced by reading
the makefile.
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