* Jeff Squyres wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:26:46PM CEST: > On Sep 23, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> Is the silent-rules clause in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE exactly equivalent to > >> calling AM_SILENT_RULES? > > > > Yes. > > Weird -- when I do this:
> -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 subdir-objects no-define 1.10 > tar-ustar]) > +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 subdir-objects no-define 1.11 > silent-rules tar-ustar]) > > -# If Automake supports silent rules, enable them. > -m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])]) > - > I do not get silent rules behavior -- I still get the old verbose behavior. > This is with: Ah, yes, you are exactly right of course, and I was hurrying and reading the code wrong. With the 'silent-rules' option, the user still needs to pass --enable-silent-rules to configure. IOW, the default is different. Cheers, Ralf
