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Re: silent-rules
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: silent-rules |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:30:24 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-09) |
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:23:10AM CEST:
> On 10/14/2009 07:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >I still fail to understand. What problem do you have with either
> > echo export V=1>> ~/.bashrc
> >
> >or
> > echo enable_silent_rules=no>> ${CONFIG_SITE-/usr/local/share/config.site}
> Wrt. question: Nope, this is not possible, because V is a much too
> general variable name to set it globally.
What about the other approach then?
> The likelihood it will clash with another V amongst the 1000s of
> packages Fedora consists of is simply too high.
Have you tried or are you guessing?
> automake should have used a name-space guarded variable, instead or
> not be using any variable at all but be relying on a configure-time
> option (--enable-verbose or similar) only.
But it *is* relying on a configure-time option. Point is, developers
can override those in their configure.ac script, or default them in a
different way than we do, even if they shouldn't. This isn't new, this
has always been the case with Autoconf-generated configure scripts.
Thanks,
Ralf
- Re: silent-rules, (continued)
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/10/14
- Re: silent-rules, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/10/14
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/15
- Re: silent-rules, Yavor Doganov, 2009/10/15
- Re: silent-rules, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/10/15
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/14
- Re: silent-rules,
Ralf Wildenhues <=