Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> writes: > I don't know where to start even and considering that silent builds > seems to be a very controversial subject within the autotools > maintainers , I think this needs to come from the maintainers themselves > to have any chance to be accepted.
There are some people on Automake mailing list who dislike them intensely. I wouldn't read into that a great deal of ongoing controversy. Those of us who happily use them just don't bother to engage in the argument any more. I think there's general consensus that there needs to be a way to turn them off and somewhat lesser but probably still reasonable consensus that turning them on as an Automake-wide default is a bad idea, but I don't think any of the maintainers are going to object to making it silent when that's explicitly requested. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
