[CMake] A way to suppress 'make install' output

[Michele Santullo]

On 06/25/2012 11:04 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 6/25/2012 10:50 AM, Michele Santullo wrote:
>> On 06/25/2012 10:42 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> On 6/25/2012 10:29 AM, Stefan Eilemann wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a way to suppress the output when installing a
>>>> project: One of our projects installs a large directory structure, and
>>>> the resulting 'make install' output is so noisy that finding other
>>>> errors in parallel builds is next to impossible.
>>>>
>>>> Does somebody have an idea?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Stefan.
>>>>
>>>
>>> make install &> filename
>>>
>>> no output at all and everything in the "filename"
>>>
>>> --
>
>>
>> Suppressing would be more like redirecting to /dev/null.
>> Use just > to keep eventual messages on stderr.
>>
>> mic
>>
>
> my solution saved the output. /dev/null is not very verbose ;-)
>
> In general a good learning point is
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
>
> My preference will be to save all the log on different files
> and to not suppress anything
>
> make |& tee make_build.log
> make install |& tee make_install.log
>
> It is a personal taste of course
>
> Regards
> Marco
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Agreed, but the question explicitly said "suppress", so I thought a 
clarification was due. That said, I would keep the log on a file unless 
I have a good reason for not doing so.

mic