With plain "make" being so nice and kbuild-quiet-like, it would be nice to make "make install" just as unverbose.
The automake documentation for silent-rules has an example of how to use this feature in custom rules: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/Options.html#index-silent_002drules-916
Reading current fedora-devel traffic on AM_SILENT_RULES, I'm coming around to not wanting this (and maybe not even for plain "make"). http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/123181
It's certainly possible to turn on verbosity for automated builds, e.g. in the spec file. Or if you prefer, we can make it default to verbose and let devs choose "--enable-silent-rules". I, for one, much prefer having the cleaner output...
I am not completely sure I understand the reference in comment #2. Does silent not just suppress the actual gcc command line if there are no warnings or errors? If it also suppresses the command line used for commands that do produce warnings or errors that would be bad, but I thought the warnings and errors (plus the command that produced them) were visible even when otherwise "silent".
Created attachment 4364 [details] for the archives, a snapshot of my partial implementation of this