On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Some projects' code outputs the flags at the end of configure,
I think that's a nice overview, but actually, that's outside automake ;-)
As for automake, this lil hack could do something similar
# -*- Makefile -*-
BUILT_SOURCES = show-flags
show-flags:
@echo CFLAGS used: ${AM_CFLAGS} ${CFLAGS}
Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to show everything. Not all
files are built with the same options. A project may have many
different built products which use different includes, libraries, and
defines.
This is why I think that the 'silent' mode is most useful to package
maintainers using carefully tailored/tested build environments and
least useful for end-users.
As a package maintainer it is MY responsibility to wring out any build
warnings so that end-users never see them. When trying to get rid of
any remaining warnings, the silent mode is very useful. If I am
building software written my someone else on my system, I prefer to
see everything so that when the build malfunctions after an hour or
two, the evidence is plain to see.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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