Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all.
> It adds an automake option to enable silent build rules.
> Here's why I wrote it in the first place: if you are a distribution
> and want to change all your packages to build silently, you may not
> want to change each package's configure.ac file.  So instead you
> could change $AUTOMAKE to contain this flag.
>
> Do you think this is worthwhile to even have?  If not, I will probably
> want to leave it out for 1.11.

Hi Ralf!

Yes, this is a very worthwhile patch, adding a feature
I have wanted for a long time.

You have my hearty "Yes!" vote ;-)