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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:47:09 +0100
From: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
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On 1/18/12 1:19 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> It would be nice to write at the INSTALL what dependencies are needed for
> the autotools to work, or, alternatively, to commit the files generated
> by the autoreconf -vfi magic spell there [1].

The end user gets a tarball created with "make dist" which contains all 
the m4 files.

For the developers I will list the dependencies (autotools-dev, 
pkgconfig and libtool) explicitely.

> Not sure if it is possible, but it would be great if the build output
> would be less verbose. libtool adds a lot of additional (generally useless)
> messages, with makes harder to see the compilation warnings in the
> middle of all those garbage.

I will add the AM_SILENT_RULES option later.

Thanks,
Gregor