Re: AM_SILENT_RULES doesn't silence texinfo rules

[Jack Kelly]

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the review. I agree with most of your remarks.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:33:27AM CEST:
>> +       tagvars and verbose vars.
>> +       * automake.in (define_verbose_tagvar): increase spacing to 12 to
>> +       accommodate MAKEINFOHTML.
>
> Ugh, that's very ugly, because it will make it very difficult to align
> the target name with the abbreviation used for the command, when the
> build is rushing by.  I found 6 to be close to the maximum tolerable
> length.  Can we either agree to create unaligned output, or abbreviate
> MAKEINFOHTML somehow?

Can we go to 8? If we have 8, I can change this to `INFOHTML' and it
means `MAKEINFO' is still OK.

Currently, the $(AM_V_FOO) output is left-aligned. What if we make it
right-aligned with 2 spaces between the end of the tag and address@hidden The
only argument I can see against this is that things like CC and CCLD
won't line up any more. Perhaps we could right-align only things that
end in LD or are very long, and add an extra 2 spaces otherwise?

Another alternative is to add an arg to define_verbose_tagvar to add 2
spaces of padding because there's a linker to worry about as well.

I'm interested in your thoughts. I could do this as a separate patch
and then finish the texinfo patch later.

-- Jack