Re: [PATCH 1/2] m4: warn when AM_SILENT_RULES default is used
Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 10:09 PM Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > To help ease people into enabling silent rules by default, warn if > a package doesn't make an explicit selection. > --- > NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ > m4/silent.m4 | 6 +++++- > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index fb05ee219708..282eb9277a3d 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ please see NEWS-2.0 and start following the advice there now. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > +New in 1.17: > + > +* Future changes > + > + - In preparation for silent rules being enabled by default, issue warnings > + when a default has not been selected. This is shown to developers (who > + run automake for their package) and for users (who run ./configure). This seems sensible for the interim. Do all of the self tests pass as-is, or do they all need to be adjusted to suppress the new diagnostic?