GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591367
Be silent by default
Last modified: 2009-08-11 22:54:38 UTC
We might as well turn on the AM_SILENT_RULES by default if a new-enough automake is found rather than requiring --enable-silent-rules.
Created attachment 140378 [details] [review] Be silent by default We might as well turn on the AM_SILENT_RULES by default if a new-enough automake is found rather than requiring --enable-silent-rules.
I recalled some complaints Damien got regarding shave in this regard from folk doing automated builds not having enough detail when the build fails, so I erred on the side of preserving the status quo. But I have no real objections to turning this on by default.
It's a bit of a problem for: A) package builds that fail B) if someone is trying to (say) jhbuild gnome-shell and hits a failure and files a bug or mails the list. Because then you may have to go back and ask for a repeat with V=1, but I think it's still an improvement to with it being silent by default: it just makes it a whole lot clearer what is going on. I'd love it if automake actually saved the command, and then echoed it if the command failed, giving the best of both worlds. Would need make changes, likely. I've gone ahead and pushed the change.