Suppress messages in make clean (Makefile silent remove)

Question

I\'m wondering how I can avoid some echo in a Makefile :

clean:
    rm -fr *.o

this rule will print:

$>make clean   
rm -fr          


        

Answer 1

In fact I was looking for something else, adding this line to the Makefile :

.SILENT:clean

while execute every step of the "clean" target silently.

Until someone point some drawback to this, I use this as my favourite solution!