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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2009-03-11 21:06, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

>* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:46:40AM CET:
>> The current patch still has a couple of warts in that --silent-rules
>> should turn off portability-recursive warnings independently of the
>> command line argument order.  This is another reason I don't like this
>> addition much: it needs more special-casing and complex semantics in
>> order to work seamlessly for users.
>
>Second bug fix of this patch.  Pushed to the branch.
>
>The ugliness of the implementation has been mostly fixed now.  So it's
>more or less a matter of:
>
>  Do we want to allow a command line knob (--silent-rules) to turn
>  off `silent' mode, or do we force developers to either touch the
>  AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable in Makefile.am or the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>  macro call in configure.ac?

Hm, what is the difference between silent and silent-rules?