Makefiles: Eliminate the useless quiet_* functions.

With the original quiet function, there's an actual purpose (hiding
excessively long compiler command lines so that warnings and errors
from the compiler can be seen).

But with things like quiet_symlink there's nothing quieter. In fact
"SYMLINK" is longer than "ln -sf". So all this is doing is hiding the
actual command from the user for no real benefit.

The only actual reason we implemented the quiet_* functions was to be
able to neatly right-align the command name and left-align the arguments.

Let's give up on that, and just left-align everything, simplifying the
Makefiles considerably. Now, the only instances of a captialized command
name in the output is if there's some actually shortening of the command
itself.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index df1636d2..d56caadd 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -279,21 +279,6 @@ CXX = ${CXX}
 # Command to execute emacs from Makefiles
 EMACS = emacs --quick
 
-# Command to execute gzip from Makefiles
-gzip = gzip
-
-# Command to create a directory
-MKDIR = install -d
-
-# Command to install an executable
-INSTALL-BIN = install
-
-# Command to install a non-executable file (documentation, etc.)
-INSTALL-DATA = install -m0644
-
-# Command to create a symbolic link
-SYMLINK = ln -sf
-
 # Default FLAGS for C compiler (can be overridden by user such as "make CFLAGS=-g")
 CFLAGS = ${CFLAGS}