Re: silencing libtool and automake

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Joachim,

* Joachim Worringen wrote on Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:16:05AM CEST:
>
> We use libtool/automake/configure for our builds, but autotools-builds  
> are pretty verbose, which is not always desired. I checked that by  
> adding the "@" silencer in the Makefiles and calling libtool with  
> "--silent" we get what we want.

make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent

> How can I create such Makefiles via autoreconf && configure?

Put this in configure.ac:
AC_SUBST([AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS], [--silent])

Then you need only 'make -s'.  Choosing additional '@' is currently not
supported by Automake, though there exists at least one third-party
patch to achieve similar functionality.

Cheers,
Ralf