Hi Ben, * Ben Elliston wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:41:46AM CET: > I approached the Libtool maintainers with this request, who convinced > me that Automake was the right place to implement this. I would like > Automake-generated Makefiles to pass --quiet to libtool when make is > invoked with -s.
Shortly after your (or somebody else's) request, Automake implemented use of LIBTOOLFLAGS. > At present, even when compiling with make -s, libtool echoes the > commands it is compiling/linking with. Libtool can know how make is > invoked, by MAKEFLAGS, but it really ought not to be doing this, as > libtool might not be invoked via make. Automake's generated Makefiles > sit in between and I believe this is the right place to glue in the > logic. Either use make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or configure LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent or some nice hack to enable this automatically in configure.ac mentioned in the discussion at that time[1]. Regards, Ralf [1] http://www.google.de/search?q=libtool+%22--silent%22+site%3Alists.gnu.org The thread moved between several of the GNU lists.
