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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >
> > > By sufficiently noisy I mean that the user should be able to see the 
> > > preprocessor and library search paths and any defines provided via the 
> > > command line so they can be sure that the right bits are being used.
> >
> > The config.status file provides this information, and is in a form that 
> > makes it useful to the developer.
>
> Not true.  The config.status file only includes information produced by 
> configure, and does not at all represent how the various build data sources 
> were put together by the makefiles to build a particular object or library.

hmm - for _that_, you don't get the information in any case unless
you solicit information from the user.

(by the way, you might consider fixing the -Wshadow warnings in your 
program)

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