On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > Automake has made it so a package maintainer has to > go a little out of the way to make --enable-silent-rules the default. > So I'm doing this: > > From 52c4018a9c1020c2250b4250dfdda1dfc1873284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:41:52 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] build: make --enable-silent-rules the default > > * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove silent-rules. Instead,... > (AM_SILENT_RULES): Use this, with it's undocumented [yes] argument. > Those who want verbose build output may configure with > --disable-silent-rules or use "make V=1".
I think I would like to do something similar in findutils. It might make sense to add this guidance to Automake's canned INSTALL file too (findutils uses that unchanged and I have no interest in forking it). James.
