* Robert J. Hansen wrote on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:36:56PM CEST: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> To give you a different perspective, I *hate* that format because it >> hides problems and *makes debugging harder*. I want to see exactly >> the command that was executed. I want to see the entire command. I >> don't want to see an abbreviation of the command. > > Fortunately, no one is advocating the current formatting be removed or > even altered, only that a less spammy alternative exist.
When Alexandre last commented on a request like this, one comment that wasn't already mentioned in this thread was this issue: a patch for nicer output should not cause hugely increased Makefile.in files. Makefile.in size is an issue for some larger projects. There have been several patches, and a couple of add-on projects, posted on either this list or automake-patches. At least one of them was ready to use IIRC. Please look them up. I might consider looking at one eventually, but right now that isn't one of my priorities. Cheers, Ralf
