>>>>> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011, Kacper Kowalik wrote: > I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have > cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but > there's a lot of packages that support things like "make V=1" or > "make VERBOSE=1" too.
> I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug... In fact, there's already bug 379497 [1] open for this. Some build systems might use the variable V for something else, so adding --disable-silent-rules may be the safer solution. Ulrich [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379497>