diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1a55a79ec..0adb8516a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -39,14 +39,17 @@ script:
   - if [[  "$CHECK_LLVM" == "yes" ]] && [[ "$CC" == "clang" ]]; then wget "https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/archive/7733e74e5454d6f18da28c06be917c1e73d12d01.zip"  & make -j 4 & wait; unzip 7733e74e5454d6f18da28c06be917c1e73d12d01.zip > /dev/null;  touch /tmp/llvm.cppcheck;  cd ./llvm-7733e74e5454d6f18da28c06be917c1e73d12d01 ; ../cppcheck . --max-configs=1 --enable=all --inconclusive --exception-handling --template="{callstack} ({severity}) {message} [{id}]" -j 2 |& tee /tmp/llvm.cppcheck; cd ../ ; echo "LLVM"  ; ! grep "process crashed with signal\|Internal error\. compiled" /tmp/llvm.cppcheck; exit; fi
 # check with TEST_MATHLIB_VALUE enabled
   - touch lib/mathlib.cpp test/testmathlib.cpp
-  - make test -j4 CPPFLAGS=-DTEST_MATHLIB_VALUE
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s test -j4 CPPFLAGS=-DTEST_MATHLIB_VALUE
   - touch lib/mathlib.cpp test/testmathlib.cpp
 # compile cppcheck, default build
-  - make test -j4
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s test -j4
 # compile gui
   - cd gui
   - qmake
-  - make -j4
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s -j4
 # building gui generates some more files that cppcheck can check, so check the repo *after* building gui
   - cd ../
 # use same hack as for clang to work around cppchecks broken exit status with -j 2 ; create file, tee everything to the file and stdout, grep for errors in the file
@@ -64,7 +67,8 @@ script:
   - git clean -dfx .
 #     can't set this as env flags, so try again with HAVE_RULES=yes
   - qmake HAVE_RULES=yes
-  - make -j4
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s -j4
   - cd ../
 # check htmlreport stuff
   - ./htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
@@ -73,18 +77,21 @@ script:
   - cd ../
 # check if DESTDIR works  TODO: actually execute this
   - mkdir install_test
-  - make DESTDIR=install_test install
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s DESTDIR=install_test install
 # rm everything
   - git clean -dfx
 # check what happens if we want to install it to some other dir,
-  - make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=/usr/share/cppcheck/cfg -j 4
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=/usr/share/cppcheck/cfg -j 4
   - sudo make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=/usr/share/cppcheck/cfg install
   - sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/cppcheck/cfg
   - sudo install -D ./cfg/* -t /usr/share/cppcheck/cfg
 # check if it actually works:
   - /usr/bin/cppcheck ./cli
 # check if reduce tool compiles
-  - make reduce -j 4
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s reduce -j 4
 # check if showtime=top5 works
   - ./tools/test_showtimetop5.sh
 # check the files in cgf dir with xmllint
@@ -99,8 +106,9 @@ script:
   - python addons/misra.py -verify addons/misra-test.c.dump
 # check if Makefile needs to be regenerated
   - git clean -dfx
-  - make dmake
-  - make run-dmake
+  - echo $CXXFLAGS
+  - make -s dmake
+  - make -s run-dmake
 # now, if dmake modified the makefile, return false!
   - git diff --exit-code