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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, sam@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: src/Makefile unhelpful
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:11:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkrj45lr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oXxCb-0006i0-3o@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:07:13 -0400)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, sam@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:07:13 -0400
> 
> If there is a way to output a message about how to request this
> feature in the make output, after the first use of a command that
> hides its actual text, or the first use of each command that
> hides its actual text, that will assure people see it this feature.
> 
> etc/DEBUG and a comment at the top are good places to use also.

Would the below be good enough?

I looked at etc/DEBUG, but it doesn't discuss build-time problems,
only how to debug Emacs that was already built.  So there doesn't seem
to be a good place there to mention this.

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index d288bac..119a96e 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 ### Commentary:
 
 # make all	to compile and build Emacs.
+# make all V=1	to compile and build Emacs with "Verbose" output -- this
+#		causes Make to show the full commands it is invoking.
 # make install	to install it.
 # make TAGS	to update tags tables.
 #



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-13 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-07  2:19 src/Makefile unhelpful Richard Stallman
2022-09-07  2:38 ` Po Lu
2022-09-07  2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  3:00   ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08  4:51     ` Sam James
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11  9:57           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-11 11:59             ` Po Lu
2022-09-11 12:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 12:16                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13  4:07               ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-13 16:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-14 20:02                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-14 20:05                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 20:47                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:14                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-15  7:28                           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15  7:41                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  9:07                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 14:33                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-09-15 16:04                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 10:46                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 11:20                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-17 16:41                                 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-09-17 22:59                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 22:58                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 10:37                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 11:38                                 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 11:53                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 12:05                                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 13:48                                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-18 16:40                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 16:59                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 21:50                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-19 17:20                                           ` chad
2022-09-19 17:25                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-19 20:42                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-18 21:39                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 13:13                           ` Ken Brown
2022-09-15 14:01                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-11 15:16           ` Werner LEMBERG
2022-09-12  4:35             ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08  6:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  7:29       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-08 13:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14  4:12           ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-14 11:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07  3:11 ` Sam James

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