Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2009-03-09 16:10, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>>> For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all.
>>>>> FWIW: I am opposed to it.
>>>>> All this silencing stuff does is to add further potential sources of
>>>>> errors.
>>>>>        
>>>> Which ones, please?
>>>>       
>>> Those yet to be discovered.
>>>    
>> Oh what great prejudice.
> No, that's experience and a matter of design.
>
> IMNSHO, this --silent thing is entirely superfluous featuritis, whose only
> achievement it is to stir up things.
>
And I take it you also oppose cmake then - just out of principle -,
which has some similar silent mode too (by default even!)...

What is being quiesced (it's not even silent, linguistically) is the
utterly long command line that is traditionally so prevalent during
compilation in automake-using projects. Not the warnings or errors
$CC would give, so I find your claim without substance.