Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its normal verbosity when something is made?
I want to use Make in a frequent cron job (every 1/2 hour, perhaps 10 minutes) but I don't want to get a bunch of emails telling me nothing was done (which will be most of the time). I just want to know when it found something to do.
On 09/19/10 6:58 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its normal verbosity when something is made?
I want to use Make in a frequent cron job (every 1/2 hour, perhaps 10 minutes) but I don't want to get a bunch of emails telling me nothing was done (which will be most of the time). I just want to know when it found something to do.
you could run `make -q`, then if it returns a non-zero status, run `make`
like...
make -q || make
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