Re: [PATCH] build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible

[Ralf Corsepius]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I like automake's upcoming --silent-rules option enough
> that I'm making it the default (when possible) for coreutils.
Well, if you think such a step to be helpful, I disagree.

> Since I bootstrap using automake from its "next" branch, it's
> enabled for me.  And that translates to enhanced Makefile.in
> files in the tarballs I generate.  The net result is that when
> you run "make" (using distributed Makefile.in files), you'll
> see something like this:
>
>  ...
>  CC  id.o
Now your users won't see the "silent bugs" your package comes with.

I am seriously asking: Why are you doing this? To me, such "silence" 
means cheating at one selves about the quality of a package and "playing 
down" the bugs a package is suffering from.

Sorry, if you find this rude, but think it needed to be said.

Ralf