reduce stderr noise in build

Ideally you should be able to do

    (Configure && make test) 2> /tmp/err

with /tmp/err being empty. This is not the case, and this commit
is a first step towards that goal.

The

    fprintf (stderr, "Sizeof time_t = %ld\n", sizeof (time_t));

in Configure appears to be just a debugging aid; it's also a copy of the
code in Porting/timecheck.c, which people can always run if need-be.

hints/linux.sh appears to be looking for symbols in libdb.so; if the
library is stripped, this produces to stderr:

    /bin/nm: /lib/libdb.so: no symbols

I've silenced it for now with a 2>/dev/null, but I'm not sure if the whole
test is flawed, since with no symbols, 'nm libdb.so | grep pthread' is a
no-op.

make_patchnum.pl, when running backticks, prints $? to stderr if it's
non-zero; since a similar print in the other branch is already commented
out, I assume its just left-over debugging.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/make_patchnum.pl b/make_patchnum.pl
index 3f857b5739..fc28d58f20 100644
--- a/make_patchnum.pl
+++ b/make_patchnum.pl
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ sub backtick {
     } else {
         my $result= `$subcd $command`;
         $result="" if ! defined $result;
-        warn "$subcd $command: \$?=$?\n" if $?;
+        #warn "$subcd $command: \$?=$?\n" if $?;
         print "#> $subcd $command ->\n $result\n" if !$? and $opt_v;
         chomp $result;
         return $result;