[CMake] Less Noisy Makefiles?

[Campbell Barton]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:55 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 7. Oct, 2010, at 11:58 , Campbell Barton wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi, I was wondering if this is possible or if it would be acceptable
>> >>> to disable progress printout.
>> >>>
>> >>> At the moment building with only minor changes prints a lot of text
>> >>> with CMake & Makefiles.
>> >>>
>> >>> eg:
>> >>> [  4%] Built target bf_intern_audaspace
>> >>> [  4%] Built target bf_intern_string
>> >>> [  6%] Built target bf_intern_ghost
>> >>>
>> >>> full log.
>> >>> http://www.pasteall.org/16053
>> >>>
>> >>> Setting: SET_PROPERTY(GLOBAL PROPERTY RULE_MESSAGES OFF)
>> >>> is no good because I want to see the lines which are running/building,
>> >>> just not the progress lines that do nothing (the reverse really).
>> >>>
>> >>> I found some messages about this but they only refer to RULE_MESSAGES.
>> >>>
>> >>> This may seem silly but its actually one of the reasons we still have
>> >>> hand written makefiles in our project (which Im trying to get replaced
>> >>> with cmake).
>> >>>
>> >>> Would this be acceptable?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> what happens if you run "make VERBOSE=1" or enable
>> >> CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE?
>> >>
>> >> Michael
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat,
>> >> plausible, and wrong.
>> >> H. L. Mencken
>> >
>> > using verbose makefiles it gives a lot of output even when running a
>> > build with no changes to any C files.
>> > http://www.pasteall.org/16061
>> >
>> > Im pretty happy with cmake's current output, its just for doing
>> > rebuilds during development where only a few files change, the
>> > progress gets in the way of seeing output of the files which do
>> > rebuild.
>> >
>> > So I think it would be good to have a RULE_PROGRESS option, since I
>> > still want to see RULE_MESSAGES.
>>
>> Im using CMake from GIT, and IIRC RULE_MESSAGES used to disable
>> progress, this link confirms.
>> http://www.itk.org/Bug/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=8726
>>
>> but at the moment % progress is enabled whatever its set to.
>>
>> --
>> - Campbell
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>
> According to the last note in bug #8726, you should run cmake with:
> -DCMAKE_RULE_MESSAGES=OFF
> to turn these things off.
> Have you done that? Or have you only tried the RULE_MESSAGES global
> property?
> I have not looked at the code, but the bug says something different than
> what your email says. -D variables and global properties are 2 different
> things...
> If you use -D to set CMAKE_RULE_MESSAGES to OFF does it actually turn them
> off?
>

I tried both in latest GIT's cmake, nether turn the progress off
also looked into the code and from what I can tell there are no checks
supress progress.

-- 
- Campbell