Re: [PATCH 1/2] m4: warn when AM_SILENT_RULES default is used

"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021, at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> To help ease people into enabling silent rules by default, warn if
> a package doesn't make an explicit selection.

-1 for the same reason that changing the default is a bad idea.

If we are to make *any* change in this area I would advocate instead for a step in the opposite direction:  remove the DEFAULT argument from AM_SILENT_RULES.  The default is hardcoded to "no".  In other words, individual packages are no longer allowed to make the user-hostile decision of switching the default to "yes".

In addition to the ergonomics benefit, taking away that knob would smooth the path to having the AM_SILENT_RULES *feature* be enabled by default: that is, all automake-using packages get the --enable-silent-rules switch and the makefile machinery to back it up, without having to mention AM_SILENT_RULES in configure.ac.

zw
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