[PATCH] silent: Set AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY for compatibility on older automake

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 13:08:39 PST 2010


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 11:32 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> Custom silent rules will become recursive on older automake where
> AM_SILENT_RULES is not included. Set AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY in this
> fallback case for compatibility.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> ---
>  I hit this error in xts when a couple people tried to run the test
>  suite against older hosts.
>
>  xorg-macros.m4.in |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xorg-macros.m4.in b/xorg-macros.m4.in
> index 7ba0c9a..478e5fe 100644
> --- a/xorg-macros.m4.in
> +++ b/xorg-macros.m4.in
> @@ -935,7 +935,8 @@ XORG_RELEASE_VERSION
>  XORG_CHANGELOG
>  XORG_INSTALL
>  XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS
> -m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
> +m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])],
> +    [AC_SUBST([AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY], [1])])
>  ]) # XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
>
>  # XORG_INSTALL()
>
> Reviewed-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
>
> Out of curiosity, how old an Automake are we talking about? Our minimum is
> 1.9 (latest is 1.9.6) which works fine.

Any automake that doesn't have AM_SILENT_RULES, which is why we have
the m4_ifdef around it. I don't remember what version of automake this
was added in, but I don't see the automake version being enforced in
any modules.

--
Dan


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