[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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