Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > By sufficiently noisy I mean that the user should be able to see the 
> > preprocessor and library search paths and any defines provided via the 
> > command line so they can be sure that the right bits are being used.
>
> The config.status file provides this information, and is in a form that makes 
> it useful to the developer.

Not true.  The config.status file only includes information produced 
by configure, and does not at all represent how the various build data 
sources were put together by the makefiles to build a particular 
object or library.

Bob
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