Actually no, it was a portability hassle

examples/simple/Makefile

@@ -13,16 +13,9 @@ CSRC += $(NANOPB_DIR)/pb_decode.c  # The nanopb decoder
 
 # Build rule for the main program
 simple: $(CSRC)
-	@echo
-	@echo "*** Building the main binary..."
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -osimple $(CSRC)
-	@echo
-	@echo "*** Congrats! You can now run ./simple to see what it does!"
-	@echo
 
 # Build rule for the protocol
 simple.pb.c: simple.proto
-	@echo
-	@echo "*** Building the protocol definition..."
 	$(PROTOC) $(PROTOC_OPTS) --nanopb_out=. simple.proto