bug#20931: batch byte-compilation is too quiet now

bug#20931: batch byte-compilation is too quiet now

[Glenn Morris]

Package: emacs
Version: 25.0.50

Batch byte-compilation is too quiet now:

  emacs-24.5 -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile foo.el
  Wrote /tmp/foo.elc

Current master:

  emacs -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile foo.el
  <Prints nothing>

bug#20931: batch byte-compilation is too quiet now

[Artur Malabarba]

Though I messed around that area recently, I think this specific
silence is being caused by this line:
    (or noninteractive (message "Wrote %s" target-file))

Which was instroduced by this commit, which seems to be intentional.

cd2d58c1c81d608d6e1aefe1eb8a3d1f1cd60540
Author:     Paul Eggert <a
href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>
AuthorDate: Sat Jan 3 18:28:35 2015 -0800
Commit:     Paul Eggert <a
href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>
CommitDate: Sat Jan 3 18:29:23 2015 -0800

Less 'make' chatter in batch mode

* admin/unidata/unidata-gen.el (unidata-gen-files):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (autoload-generate-file-autoloads):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (byte-compile-file):
* lisp/files.el (save-buffer, basic-save-buffer):
* lisp/international/quail.el (quail-update-leim-list-file):
Don't output messages like "Generating ..." in batch mode.

2015-06-29 19:01 GMT+01:00 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> Package: emacs
> Version: 25.0.50
>
> Batch byte-compilation is too quiet now:
>
>   emacs-24.5 -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile foo.el
>   Wrote /tmp/foo.elc
>
> Current master:
>
>   emacs -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile foo.el
>   <Prints nothing>
>
>
>

bug#20931: batch byte-compilation is too quiet now

[Glenn Morris]

Artur Malabarba wrote:

> Which was instroduced by this commit, which seems to be intentional.
>
> cd2d58c1c81d608d6e1aefe1eb8a3d1f1cd60540
> Author:     Paul Eggert <a
> href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>
> AuthorDate: Sat Jan 3 18:28:35 2015 -0800
> Commit:     Paul Eggert <a
> href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>
> CommitDate: Sat Jan 3 18:29:23 2015 -0800
>
> Less 'make' chatter in batch mode

I like the changes in the verbosity of Emacs's own "make" output, but
batch-byte-compile is a general utility function with uses other than
"building Emacs", and it's a bit weird to see it totally silent after
many years of printing the name of the compiled file. On the other hand,
eg gcc doesn't print anything on a successful compilation, so maybe I
should just get used to it (I don't know if it's worth a NEWS entry).