Re: [PATCH 2/3] build: add optional target parameter to quiet variable function

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] build: add optional target parameter to quiet variable function

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:36:45 -0300

To: Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> Sometimes using $@ as the target in the quiet build lines can be
> confusing. Accept an optional second parameter in the quiet variable
> function to specify the target.

I'm OK with this, but I wondered about a simpler change: always use $<.
I doesn't strictly make sense to write "CXX  -g -O2
test/make-db-version.o". When is $@ better here?

d
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