Btw, what does make filter do?
Your post to wine-patches says it's nice an all but it does not say what it does.
Try and run it it is self describing. :-)
Since Alexandre didn't apply the Makefile patch, running it is a little awkwark. Will fix that it later versions though.
Try do: cd wine ./tools/winapi/make_filter make
You can also give it parameters like ./tools/winapi/make_filter make clean
Warning "make clean" doesn't look that good currently.
PS. It filters the make messages and only display important messages.
It might not always work 100% though, but I will fix problems as I find them. I wrote it many months ago and have run it from time to time since, so most issues have been fixed.
The reason I wrote it was that I was irritated that important messages scrolled of screen.
If it's nice isn't it worth advertising to the Wine developper community?
I had intended to do that if but since I was unsure that Alexandre would apply my Makefile patch I decided to wait until it could present a better "user interface". But by all means test it.