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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2009-03-09 16:54, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> which has some similar silent mode too (by default even!)...
>>  
> Correct. that's one of cmake's sillynesses. It hides away the silent bugs a
> package suffers from.

Potential bugs in the command line invoking $CC that automake generates
just go as unnoticed in all the jabber it outputs.

>> What is being quiesced (it's not even silent, linguistically) is the
>> utterly long command line that is traditionally so prevalent during
>> compilation in automake-using projects. Not the warnings or errors
>> $CC would give, so I find your claim without substance.
>>
> Pardon, but you are "fixing" something, which has hardly been an issue (I
> recall you repeatedly complaining about it), for the 15years+, the autotools
> are around.

Well I am *so* sorry that I did not propose this "feature" to
autotools when it was first created by rms - the Internet boom
came like 8 years later only.

BTW it is not a bugfix, it is a feature. And I am not complaining about 'it',
but making my remark (as have others), which, as it stands, happens to be
in stark contrast to your position (who would have guessed).

It's not like --silent was forced upon you.