Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2009-03-28 16:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>Hi Bob, Jim,
>
>* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:40:16PM CET:
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>>> I like automake's upcoming --silent-rules option enough
>>> that I'm making it the default (when possible) for coreutils.
>[...]
>>> CC  id.o
>>
>> What happens when things go wrong with the compilation command line? How 
>> will the user diagnose build problems in this Linux-kernel like mode?
>
>Use 'make V=1'.

Which — I might add — is vastly better than cmake mentioned in
previous discussions, which, as far as my knowledge goes, you have to
rerun cmake and recreate Makefiles (gagh!).