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

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 10:09 PM Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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?