Re: make -s & libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Samuel,

* Samuel Thibault wrote on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:56:49PM CEST:
> I usually use make -s to better see warnings.  However, libtool echoes
> the commands...  Automake's autogenerated Makefile.in should check for
> the presence of -s in MAKEFLAGS, and in that case pass --silent to
> libtool.

This has been discussed before, several times; there was no consensus of
whether libtool should try to parse MAKEFLAGS (and possibly the flags of
other build tools that invoke libtool), nor would we like to put the
MAKEFLAGS parsing into every compile rule.  You can use
  make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent

or, with the git master version of Automake and future 1.11, enable
silent-rules mode to have another form of less verbose output that can
then be overridden by V=0 or V=1.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf