Re: silent installs

[Joakim Tjernlund]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote on 2010/01/29 11:17:24:
>
> And there are many examples of the opposite where less verbose output
> is useful, automake already supports silent compilation.  I know that

Yes, but automake --silent is a different tool, perhaps it should
learn suppress the install mgs as well as other libtool msgs
such as relinking as finish msgs?

> I have missed errors or warnings beause having had to much output to
> read, Joakim, would you like to work on a patch for this? I think it
> would be immensly useful.

I don't know where to start even and considering that
silent builds seems to be a very controversial subject
within the autotools maintainers , I think this needs
to come from the maintainers themselves to have any chance
to be accepted.

   Jocke