Re: Enabling automake silent-rules by default

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Many modules have already been adding support for automake silent rules, but 
> turned off by default.
> 
> I just pushed changes to pango and vte to enable silent rules by default. 
> That's a much saner default, and allows catching warnings easily.  I like to 
> suggest everyone does the same.
> 
> You just need to add this line to configure.ac after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:
> 
> m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
> 
> That does most of the job.  For custom make rules, you need to add $(AM_V_GEN) 
> to the beginning of the rule.  Read this for details:
> 
>    http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/automake/silent.html
> 
Hi.

Why not turn this into an official GOAL for 2.30/3.0 ? This is probably
too late to make every official module with silent-rules by default.

Luis