I recently learned how to use automake, and I'm somewhat annoyed that my compile commands went from a bunch of:

g++ -O2 -Wall -c fileName.cpp

To a bunch of:

depbase=`echo src/Unit.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
    g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I./src     -g -O2 -MT src/Unit.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/Unit.o src/Unit.cpp &&\
    mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po

Is there any way to clean this up? I can usually easily pick out warning messages, but now the wall of text to read though is 3x bigger and much weirder.

I know what my flags are, so making it just says "Compiling xxx.cpp" for each file would be perfect.