What I miss in GNOME

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/what-i-miss-in-gnome.html

A while back there has been a lot of noise about the GNOME
“platform” and what GNOME 3.0 should be. Personally — while I
certainly like the progress GNOME makes as a “platform” — I must say
that the platform is already quite good. In my opinion, what is
lacking right now are more the tools and utilities that are shipped
*with* the GNOME platform than the platform itself. More specifically
there are a set of (rather small) tools I am really missing in the standard set of
GNOME tools. So, here’s my wishlist, in case anybody is interested to
know:

<wishlist>

  • A simple, usable VNC/RFB client as counterpart to the VNC server
    vino that has been shipped since early GNOME 2.0 times. Isn’t
    it kind of awkward that we have been shipping a VNC server since ages,
    but no VNC client? What I want is a client (maybe called
    vinagre as a pun on vino) that is more than just a simple frontend to
    xvncviewer, but not necessarily too fancy. Something that
    integrates well into GNOME, i.e. uses D-Bus, gnome-keyring,
    avahi-ui. There seems
    to be a libvncclient library     that might make the implementation of
    this tool easy.
  • I am one of the (apparently not so few) people who run their GNOME
    session with LANG=de_DE and LC_MESSAGES=C, which
    enables german dates and everything else, but uses english
    messages. Right now it’s a PITA to configure GNOME that way. It’s not
    really documented how to do that, AFAIK. The best way to do this I
    found is to edit ~/.gnomerc and set the variables in there. A
    simple capplet which allows setting these environment variables from
    gnome-session would be a much better way to configure
    this. Nothing to fancy again. Just two drop down lists, to choose
    LANG and LC_MESSAGES and maybe a subset of the other
    i18n variables, and possibly G_FILENAME_ENCODING (although I
    might be the only one who still hasn’t switched his $HOME to
    UTF-8)
  • There’s no world clock in GNOME. Sure, there are online tools for
    this, but I am not always online with my laptop.
  • There is no simple tool to take photo snapshots or record short videos
    from webcams. I want to see something like camorama in
    gnome-media. Nothing too fancy again. No filters, no TV
    functionality. Just a small but useful GStreamer frontend.
  • I’d like to see a simple BitTorrent client shipped with GNOME, which is
    integrated well into the rest of GNOME/Epiphany, so that downloading files from
    FTP or HTTP looks exactly like downloading them from Bittorrent.

</wishlist>

Avahi on your N800

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/avahi-n800.html

I’d love to see proper Avahi support in the Nokia N800 (just think of proper
file manager integration of announced WebDAV shares!), but until now Nokia
doesn’t ship Avahi in Maemo. However, there’s now a simple way to install at
least basic Avahi support on the N800. The INdT includes Avahi in their Canola builds. Hence: just install
Canola and your N800 will register itself via mDNS on your network.

In related news: I am happy to see that Avahi has apparently been included in the just announced GNOME Embedded Platform.

Releases, Releases, Releases …

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/releases-releases-releases.html

I have just released new versions of a few of my packages:

Avahi Logo
  1. Avahi 0.6.18: The most interesting change is probably
    the addition of avahi-ui, our new GTK library which implements a
    standard dialog for browsing for Avahi services. A quick (albeit slightly out-of-date)
    introduction into avahi-ui (including screenshots) may be found in this old blog
    story     of mine. If you are a developer of a GNOME application that acts as network
    client in some way, please consider adding support for avahi-ui to your project. Examples where adding support for avahi-ui makes sense are:

    • Mail applications such as Evolution may use it to browse for POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS and SMTP servers.
    • VNC applications may use it to browse for VNC/RFB servers
    • Database clients such as Glom may use it to browse for PostrgreSQL servers
    • FTP clients may use it to browse for FTP servers
    • RSS readers may use it to browse for local RSS feeds
    • And lots of others

    There are lots of other small and not so small changes in Avahi 0.6.18.

  2. mod_dnssd 0.5: Mostly an update for Apache 2.2
  3. mod_mime_xattr 0.4: dito

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html

I don’t remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years,
the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can’t remember
exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that the
kernel build output stopped looking like what I remember from 1991,
and started looking like this:


CC arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o
CC arch/i386/kernel/signal.o

This is a heck of a lot easier to read, but there was something cool
about having make display the whole gcc
command lines, like this:


gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.semaphore.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(semaphore)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.o arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,arch/i386/kernel/.signal.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(signal)" -c -o arch/i386/kernel/signal.o arch/i386/kernel/signal.c

I never gave it much thought, since the new form was easier to read. I
figured that those folks who still eat kernel code for breakfast knew
about this change well ahead of time. Of course, they were the only
ones who needed to see the verbose output of the gcc
command lines. I could live with seeing the simpler CC
lines for my purposes, until today.

I was compiling kernel code and for the first time since this change in
the Makefiles, I was using a non-default gcc to build
Linux. I wanted to double-check that I’d given the right options to
make throughout the process. I therefore found myself
looking for a way to see the full output again (and for the first
time). It was easy enough to figure out: giving the variable setting
V=1 to make gives you the verbose version.
For you Debian folks like me, we’re using make-kpkg, so
the line we need looks like: MAKEFLAGS="V=1" make-kpkg
kernel_image.

It’s nice sometimes to pretend I’m compiling 0.99pl12 again and not
2.6.20.7. 🙂 No matter which options you give make, it is
still a whole lot easier to bootstrap Linux these days.

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