On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane tgl@redhat.com wrote:
What happens in packages using a (possibly old) autoconf script that doesn't recognize --disable-silent-rules?
Autoconf convention is to ignore unknown rules. And indeed, all that results is a warning: configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-silent-rules
IMO it would be better to add this option to the %configure calls in packages where it's actually an issue (which is surely a small minority, unless Colin has got evidence to the contrary).
I actually did this in the GNOME build system originally (pattern match for bits in configure), but after some discussion on the Yocto list we decided there the warning was harmless.
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-March/004944.html