Re: Enabling automake silent-rules by default

[Daniel Macks <dmacks netspace org>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:29:49PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 08/28/2009 02:24 PM, Luis Medinas wrote:
> >On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >>
> >>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.
> 
> Something like that, yeah.  Feel free to write the Goal.

Sounds like http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds

dan

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