Re: silent build rules

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/14/2009 2:32 PM:
> Hi Eric, Bob,

Hello to you as well,

>>> +Enable the machinery for less verbose build output (@pxref{Options}).
>> Are you going to document the (optional) argument that specifies the default?
> 
> I might, I haven't decided yet.  After all, it's so easy to get almost
> the same effect with
>   : ${enable_silent_rules=yes}
>   AM_SILENT_RULES

>
> The biggest argument that I see against documenting the optional
> argument to AM_SILENT_RULES is that it complicates the logic even more.

At this point, I'm okay with either leaving it undocumented, or removing
the optional argument altogether.  But I'm pretty much convinced that
documenting the optional parameter is a bad idea.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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