Re: [Automake-ng] Activating support for silent-rules unconditionally?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >
> Ah, but note that there is no guarantee that an input written for Automake
> will continue to work correctly for Automake-NG...  although we want to
> minimize the incompatibilites and avoid gratuitous breakage, so I agree
> with you that is a good idea to keep 'silent-rules' as a no-op but valid
> option for the time being.

The acceptance of Automake-ng will be much higher if it accepts all 
valid Automake.am files (as per existing documentation).  With a 
properly-written Automake.am it should be possible to switch back and 
forth by simply using a different automake tool.  Hopefully that is 
the plan.

Explicit Makefile bits which are added via hooks or additional 
dependencies may need to adapt.

There is of course no guarantee or warranty. :-)

Bob
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