What if a package maintainer wants to enable automake's silent-rules option by default? Currently, even when I use AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([silent-rules]) it's disabled, and to get the behavior I want, I have to run ./configure --enable-silent-rules or "make V=0".
Is there a recommended way to make the "make V=0" behavior the default? Of course, I can do this: diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 8d9bcaf..37ffd05 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10b dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests silent-rules]) +# I prefer --enable-silent-rules, so make that the default. +test "x$enable_silent_rules" != xno && AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=0 + AC_PROG_CC_STDC AM_PROG_CC_C_O AC_PROG_CPP Perhaps give AM_SILENT_RULES a parameter? Then I wouldn't have to use "$enable_silent_rules" and AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY.
