Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote on 2010/01/31 18:23:30: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > So the question really is whether to make their life harder for > > making your life easier. > > > > I'd like to know what other libtool people think about this, so > > feedback appreciated. > > I think that some people are hypersensitive to seeing build text and > that changes to behavior should be well-reasoned and based on the > typical user/developer rather than a hypersensitive one. In the USA > we call this using "community standards". > > The install step is one of the most dangerous things that I do to my > system and so I often do 'make -n install' and study what is going on > before doing the actual 'make install'. The thought of requesting a > silent install has never crossed my mind before.
Sort of makes sense when you install to your host but when install into a DESTDIR as a normal user to later transfer the whole "image" to another system (embedded in my case) it isn't such a big deal. _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
