Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2009-03-29 17:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> We can suggest using "make V=1" but end users are most likely to execute
> './configure', 'make', 'make install' without reading most of the package
> install documentation.
>[...]
> By sufficiently noisy I mean that the user should be able to see the
> preprocessor and library search paths and any defines provided via the command
> line so they can be sure that the right bits are being used.

Some projects' code outputs the flags at the end of configure,
I think that's a nice overview, but actually, that's outside automake ;-)

As for automake, this lil hack could do something similar

        # -*- Makefile -*-

        BUILT_SOURCES = show-flags
        show-flags:
                @echo CFLAGS used: ${AM_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS}