tags 551453 pending
thanks

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:03:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 à 13:24 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:23:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>automake 1.11 introduced the concept of “silent rules”. The output >looks much nicer with them, however they are not suitable at all for >building packages, especially on buildds. It sometimes makes a build >error much harder to debug, simply because you can’t see the command >lines that are actually executed.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

>The fix is very simple: pass --disable-silent-rules to configure in >DEB_CONFIGURE_NORMAL_ARGS (in autotools-vars.mk).

Do all versions of automake available in Debian support that option?

No, but autoconf will safely ignore options it doesn’t understand. I’ve just tried with a package that uses automake 1.10, and it simply spits a warning.

Thanks!

Applied now, pending next release of cdbs!


 - Jonas

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