Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

2009-03-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2009-03-11 21:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:46:40AM CET: The current patch still has a couple of warts in that --silent-rules should turn off portability-recursive warnings independently of the command line argument order. This is

Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

2009-03-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2009-03-11 22:43, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:34:20PM CET: On Wednesday 2009-03-11 21:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Do we want to allow a command line knob (--silent-rules) to turn off `silent' mode, or do we force developers to either

Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2009-03-09 15:57, Ralf Corsepius wrote: For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all. FWIW: I am opposed to it. All this silencing stuff does is to add further potential sources of errors. Which ones, please? Those yet to be discovered. Oh what great

Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2009-03-09 16:10, Ralf Corsepius wrote: For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all. FWIW: I am opposed to it. All this silencing stuff does is to add further potential sources of errors. Which ones, please? Those yet to be discovered. Oh what

Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2009-03-09 16:54, Ralf Corsepius wrote: which has some similar silent mode too (by default even!)... Correct. that's one of cmake's sillynesses. It hides away the silent bugs a package suffers from. Potential bugs in the command line invoking $CC that automake generates just go

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2009-03-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
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

Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

2008-12-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
the AM_BACKSLASH workaround; another global variable that should be unneeded. :-/ Good thing about this approach is that in the packages I tested, it increased Makefile.in size by 1% up to 7% only. Feedback welcome. 2008-12-22 Jan Engelhardt jeng...@medozas.de Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh