Re: Enabling automake silent-rules by default

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/28/2009 02:56 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Many modules have already been adding support for automake silent rules, but
> > turned off by default.
> >
> > I just pushed changes to pango and vte to enable silent rules by default.
> > That's a much saner default, and allows catching warnings easily.  I like to
> > suggest everyone does the same.
> >
> > You just need to add this line to configure.ac after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:
> >
> > m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
> >
> > That does most of the job.  For custom make rules, you need to add $(AM_V_GEN)
> > to the beginning of the rule.  Read this for details:
> >
> >     http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/automake/silent.html
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > behdad
>
> Well:
> 1. For catching warnings -Werror is much better.

Don't get me started on that.

> 2. Silent AM unfortunately hides many things. Once I had problem with
> tracing error because of that (I haven't seen CFLAGS/LDFLAGS passed to
> gcc).

make V=1

> I guess however that might be the problem with SHAVE and it was fixed by
> autotools silent mode.
>
> Regards

behdad