When building GCC, I often pass --quiet to the top-level configure script. However, I sometimes find the need to blow away the build tree and rebuild from scratch. When this happens, I use config.status -V to find out what options I passed when the build tree was first set up. eg:
$ ./config.status -V config.status configured by /home/bje/source/gcc-trunk/configure, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59, with options " '--disable-bootstrap' '--enable-languages=c,c++' [...] If I configured this tree at the outset with --quiet, this will never be recorded in the config.status output and I must remember to append it when reconstructing the configure command line. This may well also apply to other configure options. A bug? Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <b...@au.ibm.com> Australia Development Lab, IBM