These makefiles provide the info target that will print contents of each
variable that is not printed (unless V=1, which is not the case here) on
command invocation. Making this information available in the logs should
help debugging, but it doesn't need to be printed on each command
invocation.
The point of making the default "semi-silent" (each target is printed,
but not the entire invocation verbatim) was to factor out information
about invocation to a one-time target (info) and not repeating it ever
again. With V=1, the info target is silent, because each command
invocation will be printed verbatim, which needs no herald.
The undesired side effect of me introducing the info target and making
it a dependency of the default all target is that info doesn't respect
the --silent make option, so in this use case it was more noisy, not
less.
I believe the most elegant solution that satisfies all use cases is to
stop printing info unconditionally, and instead list it explicitly in
make invocations in CI, together with the all target. Then this info is
kept available for inspection from logs, but it's not repeated on each
invocation. The intention was to make the logs easier to read and scroll
in search for new compiler warnings.
The Windows builds have been missing some libraries, notably
avdevice-58.dll, avfilter-7.dll, and prostproc-55.dll as reported by a
user on Discord. I suspect it's caused by cc842fd, although I don't
fully understand why that would happen.
In core downloader, description can be brought up by pressing
Select. However, for those cores where the description is longer
than what would be possible to display, nothing was displayed.
Several such cores exist, one example is Dosbox-Core.
Since this array is used for the messagebox, it is needless to make
it larger than what would be displayed anyway, and it makes other
safeguards act reasonably, so now there is info, just truncated.
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