Re: Enabling automake silent-rules by default

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 20:33 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le vendredi 28 août 2009, à 14:29 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> > On 08/28/2009 02:24 PM, Luis Medinas wrote:
> > >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.
> > 
> > Something like that, yeah.  Feel free to write the Goal.
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds ?
> 
Yes i it exists already, so it will be a nice idea turning into a
offical goal for the next release. Any objection ?

Luis