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Re: Automake feature request
- From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:47:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: Automake feature request
- Organization: Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
- References: <422E626A.9050309@au.ibm.com>
Hi Ben,
* Ben Elliston wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:41:46AM CET:
> I approached the Libtool maintainers with this request, who convinced
> me that Automake was the right place to implement this. I would like
> Automake-generated Makefiles to pass --quiet to libtool when make is
> invoked with -s.
Shortly after your (or somebody else's) request, Automake implemented
use of LIBTOOLFLAGS.
> At present, even when compiling with make -s, libtool echoes the
> commands it is compiling/linking with. Libtool can know how make is
> invoked, by MAKEFLAGS, but it really ought not to be doing this, as
> libtool might not be invoked via make. Automake's generated Makefiles
> sit in between and I believe this is the right place to glue in the
> logic.
Either use
make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent
or
configure LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent
or some nice hack to enable this automatically in configure.ac
mentioned in the discussion at that time[1].
Regards,
Ralf
[1] http://www.google.de/search?q=libtool+%22--silent%22+site%3Alists.gnu.org
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