Re: abbreviating gnulib-generated "make" output

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> The output from running "make" for coreutils-7.5, starts with nearly
> 500(!) lines worth of commands showing me precisely how just a few
> files in lib/ are being generated, e.g.,
...
> Subject: [PATCH] annotate automake snippets with $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at)
>
> This makes it so packages using automake-1.11's silent-rules option
> can print e.g., a single "GEN    configmake.h" line, rather than

In case it's not obvious, this patch causes no trouble (but no
improvement, either) if you use older versions of automake.