Re: Report to stdout like Linux kernel compilation does

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Robert J. Hansen wrote on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:36:56PM CEST:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> To give you a different perspective, I *hate* that format because it
>> hides problems and *makes debugging harder*.  I want to see exactly
>> the command that was executed.  I want to see the entire command.  I
>> don't want to see an abbreviation of the command.
>
> Fortunately, no one is advocating the current formatting be removed or  
> even altered, only that a less spammy alternative exist.

When Alexandre last commented on a request like this, one comment that
wasn't already mentioned in this thread was this issue: a patch for
nicer output should not cause hugely increased Makefile.in files.
Makefile.in size is an issue for some larger projects.

There have been several patches, and a couple of add-on projects, posted
on either this list or automake-patches.  At least one of them was ready
to use IIRC.  Please look them up.  I might consider looking at one
eventually, but right now that isn't one of my priorities.  

Cheers,
Ralf