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

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> 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]).

Thanks, Dave.

I saw the "WDYT?" and all of the ensuing discussion and presumed that it
was something controversial/debatable.  Now that I understand the proposal,
I feel it is neither of those.

> 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.

Great!