On Sun, Dec 12, 2021, at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > To help ease people into enabling silent rules by default, warn if > a package doesn't make an explicit selection.
-1 for the same reason that changing the default is a bad idea. If we are to make *any* change in this area I would advocate instead for a step in the opposite direction: remove the DEFAULT argument from AM_SILENT_RULES. The default is hardcoded to "no". In other words, individual packages are no longer allowed to make the user-hostile decision of switching the default to "yes". In addition to the ergonomics benefit, taking away that knob would smooth the path to having the AM_SILENT_RULES *feature* be enabled by default: that is, all automake-using packages get the --enable-silent-rules switch and the makefile machinery to back it up, without having to mention AM_SILENT_RULES in configure.ac. zw