Re: yet another patch to reduce make output

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Jason,

thanks for your work.  While I'm not to judge this, and pretty
indifferent about it, a couple of question to clarify a bit:

* Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:36:55PM CET:
> 
> This patch prefixes the compile and link commands in the generated
> Makefile's with $(AM_PFX).  It leaves AM_PFX undefined, so the default
> behavior is unchanged.  If a package maintainer wants to change the
> output, (s)he can do something like: AM_PFX = @echo "$@ ...";

What's the improvement over
  AM_MAKEFLAGS = -s

except for that this only works starting from the second level 'make'
invocation, and why does the patch silence the usual compile/link
commands for programs and libraries but not for, say, texinfo output?

Thanks,
Ralf