[x264-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Silent build rules

[Stephen Hutchinson]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, BugMaster <BugMaster at narod.ru> wrote:
> Hi. I don't understand what for you are trying to silence anything?
> What is reason for such use case? Because I can't justify such
> complication of configure/make scripts for some abstract no real
> reason. So imho it is not needed (x264 is not so big project as ffmpeg
> to silent something in build process).
>

The practical reason is that it makes warnings easier to locate
in the build output.  Without the silencing, the output warnings and the
actual compilation commands just blend into a large wall of text in
the Terminal.