Enhancing automake support for silent-rules

2013-06-07 Thread Darren Garvey
Hi all, I've been trying to make a large automake-generated project I work on build quieter. While there is some support for silent-rules, there are several places where automake templates* don't silence themselves, which I'd like to rectify. I have made several changes locally which helps a lot

Re: Enhancing automake support for silent-rules

2013-06-07 Thread Gavin Smith
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Darren Garvey darren.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to make a large automake-generated project I work on build quieter. While there is some support for silent-rules, there are several places where automake templates* don't silence themselves,

Re: Enhancing automake support for silent-rules

2013-06-07 Thread Darren Garvey
On 7 June 2013 23:10, Gavin Smith gavinsmith0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Darren Garvey darren.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to make a large automake-generated project I work on build quieter. While there is some support for silent-rules,

Re: Enhancing automake support for silent-rules

2013-06-07 Thread Gavin Smith
%SILENT% doesn't work in any of the places I tried. I'm speculating that this is because it's substituted too early. I see it being used in a few places (eg. lib/am/library.am), but those rules are full of other %NAME% strings. Different files will use different substitutions. For SILENT to