On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
I like automake's upcoming --silent-rules option enough
that I'm making it the default (when possible) for coreutils.
Well, if you think such a step to be helpful, I disagree.
Then you can build with "make V=1".
Since I bootstrap using automake from its "next" branch, it's
enabled for me. And that translates to enhanced Makefile.in
files in the tarballs I generate. The net result is that when
you run "make" (using distributed Makefile.in files), you'll
see something like this:
...
CC id.o
Now your users won't see the "silent bugs" your package comes with.
I am seriously asking: Why are you doing this?
I find it far easier to spot compiler warnings this way.
That's essential, when not using -Werror.
well (recalling previous discussion), the reason that Ralf's complaining
is that while it makes working on your program simpler it makes finding
bugs in _automake_ harder.
(expecting a knee-jerk response: I've seen no credible statements to the
contrary).
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