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Re: libtool verbosity
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
> > I was expecting this sort of answer, but was hoping that then I would
> > also get a pointer to how else to possibly achieve the same thing.
>
> For the package I support, I added a configure option to enable
> verbose libtool output. Libtool is executed in silent mode by default
> since it is assumed that maintainers/porters are the only ones who
> really need the extra information.
Why would anyone want silent output? Surely someone building your tool
would be interested in errors during a build, rather than rebuilding
from scratch to find out what went wrong?
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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)