On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:43 -0600, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Hello Jason, > > > > thanks for your work. While I'm not to judge this, and pretty > > indifferent about it, a couple of question to clarify a bit: > > > > * Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:36:55PM CET: > >> This patch prefixes the compile and link commands in the generated > >> Makefile's with $(AM_PFX). It leaves AM_PFX undefined, so the default > >> behavior is unchanged. If a package maintainer wants to change the > >> output, (s)he can do something like: AM_PFX = @echo "$@ ...";
If you really want to reduce verbosity, you can't avoid making it a configuration-time or run-time option, not an automake-option, otherwise you are forcing people not liking your style of "verbosity", to patch around into your sources. > > What's the improvement over > > AM_MAKEFLAGS = -s Did you try setting "MAKEFLAGS=-s" in your environment? Frankly speaking, I am still far from finding your intention helpful. Such "non-verbose" makefiles are a massive PITA, for example during Fedora package reviews and when debugging broken Makefiles. Ralf
