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Bug 591367 - Be silent by default
Be silent by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-10 19:58 UTC by Owen Taylor
Modified: 2009-08-11 22:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


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Be silent by default (881 bytes, patch)
2009-08-10 21:11 UTC, Owen Taylor
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Description Owen Taylor 2009-08-10 19:58:22 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.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2009-08-10 21:11:17 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Tomas Frydrych 2009-08-11 06:28:17 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2009-08-11 22:54:38 UTC
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.