Re: [PATCH] Making automake less verbose

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:03:39PM CEST:
> On Jul 24 2007 20:42, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >`$(if )' is not POSIX.
> 
> So what is the POSIX equivalent - if there is any?

You can either do evaluation in shell code at rule runtime (with the
implied overhead), or make the verbose/non-verbose decision already at
configure (config.status) time by setting or substituting some variable.

I think somebody even posted a patch for this sometime that was written
in a way so you could choose verbosity at `make' time, by carefully
preceding all commands with some macro.  Turning off that macro could
then choose the other-style output.

FWIW, I currently use `make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent || make' or,
preferably, let my editor postprocess build output.  Progress on this
issue would be a good thing though.

Cheers,
Ralf