[OE-core] [PATCH] cmake: Reduce verbosity for make invocation

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:47 PM Douglas Royds
<douglas.royds at taitradio.com> wrote:
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> On 12/03/19 6:18 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:53 PM Douglas Royds
> <douglas.royds at taitradio.com> wrote:
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> Since the dawn of time, we have set CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=1 in cmake.bbclass.
> Back in 2016, we also explicitly set VERBOSE=1 in cmake_do_compile(),
> to ensure that make (and ninja) output were verbose in log.do_compile.
>
> Turning off CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=1 means that make (or ninja)
> invocations from the command-line are non-verbose,
> giving CMake's default human-readable output on the terminal instead.
> The user can still invoke VERBOSE=1 make if they do want verbose output.
> This has no effect on the verbose output that goes into the logs.
>
> I think it would be better to have knob to turn is on and off both on
> console and log files.
>
>
> If you want it on for some reason, you can turn it on in your local.conf:
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> EXTRA_OECMAKE_append=" -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=1"
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> Alternatively, you can turn verbosity on for a single invocation (this is what I do when I need it):
>
> make VERBOSE=1
>
> You can also set an environment variable to make it always verbose, if you want that for some reason:
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> VERBOSE=1 make
>
> Do we really need a new variable for this?

its fine if we can ensure consistent behaviour, I dont like the fact that
cmdline output would be different than whats stored in log files.