Controlling verbosity of make

Question

I\'m using a makefile to compile a program made of many .c files, and any time make is invoked it only compiles those files modified after the last run

Answer 1

Another solution (one which I like because it's flexible)

ifeq ("$(BUILD_VERBOSE)","1")
Q :=
vecho = @echo
else
Q := @
vecho = @true
endif

%.o: %.c
    $(vecho) "-> Compiling $@"
    $(Q)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

You can skip the vecho stuff, but it does come in handy at times.