Sorry to post once again with the broken email headers,
but I think I should remark on this.

Maciej Mrozowski wrote:

> - always pass --disable-dependency-tracking

It is probably widely unknown that --disable-dependency-tracking
has an unexpected side effect: It makes the "silent rules" feature
of automake-1.11 useless (more and more projects are beginning to
use this feature).
One may consider this as a bug of automake-1.11, but this is
how it is now, and I do not know whether there are plans to
change it in future versions of automake.

Regards
Martin Väth