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
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53:40AM CEST:
What if a package maintainer wants to enable
automake's silent-rules option by default?
Then you should argue for this; see the arguments against it here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-04/msg00019.html
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53:40AM CEST:
What if a package maintainer wants to enable
automake's silent-rules option by default?
Then you should argue for this; see the arguments against it here:
...
Hi Ralf,
I think backwards compatibility is
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:34:50PM CEST:
Switching to silent-rules feels like progress, so I want it to be
enabled by default, at least for packages I maintain. Of course,
that's my judgment, and if enough people say that my enabling
silent-rules broke their XYZ, I can
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:34:50PM CEST:
Switching to silent-rules feels like progress, so I want it to be
enabled by default, at least for packages I maintain. Of course,
that's my judgment, and if enough people say that my enabling
silent-rules
