linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] configure.in: add --disable-libuuid option (Was: libuuid (Re: blkid: util-linux-ng vs. e2fsprogs))

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:35:06 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure.in: add --disable-libuuid option (Was: libuuid (Re: blkid: util-linux-ng vs. e2fsprogs))

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 17:52:11 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 23:43, Theodore Tso<tytso@....edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:17:02PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> And another thing is your custom "silent build" which can not be
> >> disabled. Our build system requires the command output for fancy
> >> analysis, so it would be good if it could be disabled, like it can for
> >> the kernel (V=1). Any ideas, or do I miss some switch?
> >
> > Is a configure-level switch all that you need?  I hadn't done a
> > make-level switch because I was trying to avoid adding a requirement
> > of using GNU make in building e2fsprogs, since it gets used by *BSD
> > and Solaris systems as well.  (And in fact some of the recent UUID bug
> > fixes come from FreeBSD bug reports, and I suspect FreeBSD will
> > continue to use UUID library from e2fsprogs rather than pulling in
> > util-linux-ng....)
>
> Anything would work, that resolves the '@' to nothing and puts out the
> command, an environment var or a switch.
>
> In older udev releases, before we switched to automake, I had
> something like this, which behaves a bit like the Linux kernel build,
> and V=1 switches off the silent mode:

why not just use automake-1.11's silent-rules option.  then you dont have to 
waste time reinventing the wheel.
-mike

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