Re: Enabling automake silent-rules by default

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/28/2009 02:22 PM, Shaun McCance 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
>
> If anybody would like to help make gnome-doc-utils.make
> better with silent rules, let me know.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589278

Commented on the bug.  For those curious, you can define custom verbosity 
macros.  Search for AM_V_GEN in "info automake".

behdad


> --
> Shaun