On 21/08/2012 09:30, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > In Fedora we already are pushing around package maintainers to pass > appropriate options to configure to revert this change, because silent > make rules are non-suitable for building distros in batch jobs.
The same is true for Gentoo. > In other words, it is a fork with a backward incompatible API, a > probably backward-incompatible runtime environment and a different > target audience. > > Somewhat exaggerated: Yet another tool the world has not been waiting for. Or possibly what people expected Automake to be. Honestly I'm not sure how many automake-based projects really care about non-GNU make compatibility nowadays. A lot of them already don't work that well with anything but GNU make, and they just don't care. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/