Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce KECHO convenience echo

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 15:50, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:31:34AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show
>> some nice status lines.  This means we still get output when running in
>> silent mode.  So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we
>> are in a suitable verbose build mode.
>
> Nice idea.
> I will add it as soon as I start working on kbuild-next
> Same for your other two patches.
>
> A lot of the kbuild stuff today is using lowercase to
> avoid all the typical SCREAMING in Makefiles so I
> may end up using $(kecho).

yeah i wasnt sure whether to use $(KECHO) or $(kecho) or just $(echo).
 i'm really not partial to any :).
-mike
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