Re: silent-rules

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/13/2009 04:49 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > The problem is verifying "correctness of building" packages in batches.
> >
> > i.e. to monitor/inspect CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc. in compiler 
> > calls etc. for correctness
> >
> > (NB: A package, which compiles without warning doesn't mean it is 
> > being built correctly.)
> >
> > > What work does it cause except for using --disable-silent-rules at
> > > configure time or V=1 at make time?
> > Exactly this is the problem.
>
> The problem isn't the support for silent rules.  The problem is that 
> some packages are enabling it by default
Indeed. What makes the situation worse is some upstreams shipping 
"common" aclocal-macros which enable it by default. This cause quite 
some amount of surprises when analysing buildlogs of packages which for 
whatever reasons run autoreconf/autogen.sh.

> because it looks like Linux and Linux is cool.
:=)

Ralf