Hi Jan,
while reviewing the threads about this topic, I found this:
* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:47:36PM CET:
On Monday 2008-12-22 22:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
[ from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/9995 ]
I haven't found another way yet.
[ moving from automake@ ]
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 04:16:33PM CET:
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/automake.git
git branch je-silent origin/je-silent
(thanks Jan for the typo fix!)
Detailed patch descriptions will follow on automake-patches,
This first patch
This is the meat of the change. Changes over previous iterations of the
patch: I went back to Jan's original idea of recursive variable
expansion, but without adding variables to Makefile.in for languages that
are not used. Factorized the code a bit more.
One thing that bothers me with this
For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all.
It adds an automake option to enable silent build rules.
Here's why I wrote it in the first place: if you are a distribution
and want to change all your packages to build silently, you may not
want to change each package's configure.ac
On Sunday 2009-03-08 10:01, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Another minor issue I don't quite like yet: before this change,
the code was quite carefully laid out to be performant in the
generic fastdep case: GNU make can avoid spawning a shell for
a command, when the command line to be executed can
