Re: Shrink volume of default make output

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 03:37:04PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> The recent thread about compiler warnings got me thinking about how it's
> essentially impossible to notice warnings with default make output. Perhaps
> everyone just uses make -s by default, though that's a bit annoying since
> you get no output unless something does warn (and then you don't know what
> directory it was in).
>
> Is it worth looking into this? I'm guessing this may be moot with the CMake
> work, but it's not clear when that'll make it in. In the meantime, ISTM
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/218295 should be an easy change to make (though
> perhaps with a variable that gives you the old behavior).

Please src/tools/pgtest for an example of pulling out warning lines and
reporting them at the end of the build.

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