bug#8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles

2011-05-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Friday 13 May 2011, Jack Kelly wrote: > [snip] > > >> Maybe we should have a more general method of > >> declaring silencing variables (like the $(AM_V_GEN), but also the > >> others that echo 'CC' and friends. Then users who have unconventional > >> setups can silence things without echoing 'G

bug#8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles

2011-05-13 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello Jack, thanks for the feedback. > > On Friday 13 May 2011, Jack Kelly wrote: >> Comments inline, after some snipping. >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Stefano Lattarini >> wrote: >> > -snip intro- >> > >> > I thus propose we a

bug#8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles

2011-05-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Jack, thanks for the feedback. On Friday 13 May 2011, Jack Kelly wrote: > Comments inline, after some snipping. > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: > > -snip intro- > > > > I thus propose we add an API of this kind. At first, this might be as > > simple as just