Jim Meyering wrote:
I like automake's upcoming --silent-rules option enough
that I'm making it the default (when possible) for coreutils.
Well, if you think such a step to be helpful, I disagree.
Since I bootstrap using automake from its "next" branch, it's
enabled for me. And that translates to enhanced Makefile.in
files in the tarballs I generate. The net result is that when
you run "make" (using distributed Makefile.in files), you'll
see something like this:
...
CC id.o
Now your users won't see the "silent bugs" your package comes with.
I am seriously asking: Why are you doing this? To me, such "silence"
means cheating at one selves about the quality of a package and "playing
down" the bugs a package is suffering from.
Sorry, if you find this rude, but think it needed to be said.
Ralf
