Re: [RFC/PATCH] m4: enable silent build rules by default

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <YbWSO0d6DXKVwMIW@vapier>
On 07 Dec 2021 21:58, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > This has been available since automake 1.11 released over a decade
> > ago.  Let's flip the default to enable silent builds by default.
> 
> Please don't *ever* make this change.  It is absolutely essential that the default build output be verbose, else anyone who's stuck trying to debug a build on a CI server that they have no direct access to is in a world of hurt.

people can trivially add --disable-silent-rules to their configure invocations.
i really don't think this is as onerous as you make it out to be.
-mike
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