On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 03:17 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > But YOU can still disable it by default, by writing your packaging > > automation tools to supply --disable-silent-rules as part of calling > > ./configure, and/or writing an appropriate config.site. In other words, > > the person running ./configure STILL has the option to choose YOUR desired > > default, even if it is different than the package author's desired > > default. > > Exactly what I said in a previous mail: Automake is pushing around > package maintainers to modify their packages to automake's behavioral > changes. (Here package maintainer == Package installers) Or use the config.site mechanism as part of the build environment, which means no change to the packaging automation tools, just an addition to the build environment (which I assume you have to standardise anyway). Richard _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
