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

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Jim, Dave.

On 04/17/2012 10:35 AM, Dave Hart wrote:
> 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=1 absent maintainer
> override with AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]).
> 
Exactly.  And this default should already be tested by our testsuite BTW,
so we shouldn't risk to regress.

I hope I'll be able to post a patch later this morning.

Thanks,
  Stefano