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

[Dave Hart]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:30, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> But since Automake-NG only targets GNU make, and since silent rules are
>> disabled by default even when the 'silent-rules' option is given [2], I
>> think it would now be simpler to have support for silent rules always
>> enabled [3].
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Yes, I think that would be an improvement for interactive use,
> but changing the default might be problematic for build systems
> that expect "make" to print a full log of the commands that it runs.
> They'd have to know to use V=1 with an automake-ng-using project.

Re-read what Stefano said carefully.  He is not proposing to enable
silence by default, but only to enable the silent-rules infrastructure
by default.  make would still default to V=0 absent maintainer
override with AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]).

Cheers,
Dave Hart