Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 16:14:06 EST


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:31:34AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show
> some nice status lines. This means we still get output when running in
> silent mode. So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we
> are in a suitable verbose build mode.

Nice idea.
I will add it as soon as I start working on kbuild-next
Same for your other two patches.

A lot of the kbuild stuff today is using lowercase to
avoid all the typical SCREAMING in Makefiles so I
may end up using $(kecho).

Sam
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