Re: silent-rules

[Richard Ash]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 03:17 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > But YOU can still disable it by default, by writing your packaging
> > automation tools to supply --disable-silent-rules as part of calling
> > ./configure, and/or writing an appropriate config.site.  In other words,
> > the person running ./configure STILL has the option to choose YOUR desired
> > default, even if it is different than the package author's desired
> > default.
> 
> Exactly what I said in a previous mail: Automake is pushing around 
> package maintainers to modify their packages to automake's behavioral 
> changes. (Here package maintainer == Package installers)

Or use the config.site mechanism as part of the build environment, which
means no change to the packaging automation tools, just an addition to
the build environment (which I assume you have to standardise anyway).

Richard