On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> cc -O2 -Dneb -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE -c -fPIC -DPIC main.c
> mv -f main.o main.lo
> cc -O2 -Dneb -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE -c main.c >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> I'm wondering what this output redirection is good for (other than for not
> showing errors). Can someone enlighten me?

Perhaps because you've already seen the warnings in the first
compile of that file, and libtool doesn't want to give you two sets
of identical warnings?

cjs

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