[CMake] Disable pretty output

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue May 20 10:33:28 EDT 2008


Jesper Eskilson wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> David Sveningsson wrote:
>>> Hi, more newbie questions. The GNU Makefiles generated CMake has some 
>>> nice colored output, progress etc. However I would like to disable 
>>> this and see each command that is run (debugging purpose).
>>>
>> There is no way to turn it off.  You can do make VERBOSE=1 to see the 
>> commands, but they will be mixed with the other stuff as well.
> 
> The output management for the makefile generator has several problems 
> (IMO).
> 
> - When using parallell make, the output becomes jumbled.
> - The -s flag to make is not obeyed.
> - The pretty/colorized progress messages can't be switched off.
> - The progress messages are (sometimes) too long.
> 
> I'd actually like an option to remove all the progress messages from the
> makefile, alternatively move them out to a separate (replacable) utility.
> 

Feel free to create a feature request. Please describe how the 
replaceable utility would work.

-Bill



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