[CMake] Weird output

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-09-17 09:10+0200 Jesper Eskilson wrote:

> Timenkov Yuri wrote:
>
>>     Anyway, the printout is inside a if(this->Verbose) { ... }, so
>>     presumable it is something which can be switched on/off.
>> 
>> And it seems not a problem, because CMake just tells why it regenerates 
>> dependencies.
>
> But it clutters my make output. I like my make output to be as clean as 
> possible. Actually I would like to get rid of the "Building CXX object..." 
> messages as well -- when running make with the -s option there should be no 
> output at all except error messages. But that is another issue.
>
> Anyway, the culprit is that I ran make like this
>
> $ make -j2 all VERBOSE=
>
> i.e. the VERBOSE variable is set, but to the empty string.

I doubt setting VERBOSE at the end like that after the "all" target will
work. For that order make probably assumes "VERBOSE=" is a target which is
not what you want.

I do know that the forms

make VERBOSE=1 -j2 all

or

make VERBOSE=0 -j2 all

do work.

Alan
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