> [philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com - Mon Jan 26 12:00:57 2009]:
> 
> When doing a version bump on distros (especially distros that may have 
> required some patching to accommodate this package), the "silent death" 
> of commands that run and fail without emitting any output makes it 
> especially difficult to figure out what died and why.
> 
> I'd recommend using something like:
> 
> QUIET=y
> ifeq ($(QUIET),y)
>   Q:=@
> else
>   Q:=
> endif
> 
> in the makefiles, and allowing one to override QUIET from the command
line.
> 
> 
> 

There have been some concerns expressed in the mailing list about how
portable this is to the many version of 'make' it has to work with.

Steve.

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