Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > My problem with that change is that, the relinking and finish really are > information that some users need to know about. If you don't --finish, > then your libraries won't be found by the runtime linker. If relinking > happens as another user than the one who ran `ma

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: 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. True. Any task likely to be performed as 'root'

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Bob Friesenhahn 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

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Peter Johansson wrote on 2010/01/31 16:28:52: > > On 1/31/10 6:10 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/31 08:38:38: > > > >> > >> > >> My problem with that change is that, the relinking and finish > >> really are information that some users need to know about. > >> If

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Johansson
On 1/31/10 6:10 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/31 08:38:38: My problem with that change is that, the relinking and finish really are information that some users need to know about. If you don't --finish, then your libraries won't be found by the runtime

Re: silent installs

2010-01-31 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Ralf Wildenhues wrote on 2010/01/31 08:38:38: > > [ moving to libtool@ from automake@; this is > > > this particular message is about whether the relinking warning and the > warning about the need to --finish s

Re: silent installs

2010-01-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ moving to libtool@ from automake@; this is this particular message is about whether the relinking warning and the warning about the need to --finish should be changed to be notices only, which would cause th