Re: mention --{disable,enable}-silent-rules

[Eric Blake]

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According to Alfred M. Szmidt on 5/24/2009 10:16 PM:
>    - It would be good if the silent-rules API
>      (--{disable,enable}-silent-rules, and V=0, V=1) were mentioned
>      somewhere.
> 
> Totally agree.
> 
> I don't have the source code for autoconf here so no patch, but one
> could mention setting V=0/V=1 in config.site if one wishes to
> permanently flip the variable.

Rather than setting V, your config.site should set your choice of
enable_silent_rules={yes,no}.  You still want V to be available for
overriding the default at make time.  But the autoconf manual is not the
place to document this; it is an automake feature.  On the other hand, I'm
still hoping to finish addressing all of Ralf's points on the INSTALL
improvement patch, which will at least include mention of
- --enable-silent-rules on the configure command line and the use of V at
make time.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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