Re: automake less verbose (iter 3)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Raja R Harinath wrote on Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:11:18AM CET:
> Jan Engelhardt <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Monday 2008-12-22 21:36, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>And non-GNU make support $< only in inference rules and not elsewhere.
> >
> > In that case, removing V=1 again is probably the best solution.
> > (Leaving only V=0 and V=infinity)
> 
> Not necessarily.  We could document that V=1 is supported, as in "expected to
> generate clean output", only on GNU make.  On other makes, '$<' probably
> expands to the empty string, causing only mildly strange looking output
> otherwise equivalent to V=0.

FWIW, OpenBSD make outputs:
Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 2 of Makefile)

Others I've tested are silent.

Cheers,
Ralf