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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:34:20PM CET:
> On Wednesday 2009-03-11 21:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >  Do we want to allow a command line knob (--silent-rules) to turn
> >  off `silent' mode, or do we force developers to either touch the
> >  AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable in Makefile.am or the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> >  macro call in configure.ac?
> 
> Hm, what is the difference between silent and silent-rules?

The command line option --silent-rules does the same as the argument
`silent' to the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro in configure.ac:
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([silent])

Both enable silent mode for all Makefile.in files.

Per-Makefile.in silent mode may be enabled by adding
  AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = silent

to the respective Makefile.am.

The reason that the command line option is not called `--silent' is that
normally, i.e., with several other GNU software, --silent is the
opposite of --verbose, and changes the verbosity of the command.  But
--silent-rules does not change the verbosity of the automake command.

Hope that clears things up.

Cheers,
Ralf