"VERBOSE=1 make" does NOT mean "give us thousands of lines of garbage"

We want to see the commands that "make" is running.  We do NOT want
to see thousands of lines of the same output from jlibtool about
its build flags.

diff --git a/scripts/libtool.mk b/scripts/libtool.mk
index ad31a7ff69cdfb605b46fbaa2028a134c60ba6cd..e2bec208f91876dd360ac06dab650fbd83617b1d 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/libtool.mk
+++ b/scripts/libtool.mk
@@ -101,7 +101,19 @@ clean.libs:
 
 # Re-define compilers and linkers
 #
-LIBTOOL_VERBOSE=$(if ${VERBOSE},--debug,--silent)
+
+#
+#  VERBOSE=1 means "debug the commands that we're running".
+#  VERBOSE=2 means "also debug the jlibtool internals".
+#
+#  For normal VERBOSE=1, we do NOT want to see thousands of lines of
+#  the same content of jlibtool environment variables.
+#
+ifeq "$(VERBOSE)" "2"
+LIBTOOL_VERBOSE=--debug
+else
+LIBTOOL_VERBOSE=--silent
+endif
 
 OBJ_EXT = lo