[PATCH] macros: Globally add --disable-silent-rules to configure

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 16:50:26 UTC 2011


On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:44:31 +0200, Colin Walters wrote:
> Various projects have been adding AM_SILENT_RULES from Automake to
> their Makefiles for "developer convenience"; the goal being that they
> see warnings more easily.

It is inconvenient as one can no longer easily reproduce the compilation for
various problems either of the toolchain itself or adjusting it when
troubleshooting tools processing the output binaries.

More reasons are listed in the follow Bug, package "kernel" already uses such
mode, I got request for the normal verbose compilation WONTFIXed:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716563


Jan


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