From 7359cf0b80f7cd9137fa7cc5d58dcdaac40a8692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Tibbitts <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:06:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] And add a more descriptive comment.

---
 macros | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/macros b/macros
index dc8d3cb..d928069 100644
--- a/macros
+++ b/macros
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@
 #
 %_configure_gnuconfig_hack	1
 %_configure_libtool_hardening_hack	1
-# _configure_disable_silent_rules 0
+# If defined, _configure_disable_silent_rules will cause --disable-silent-rules
+# to be added to the list of options passed to the configure script.
+# Eventually we'll want to turn this on by default, but this gives packagers a
+# way to turn it back off.
+# %_configure_disable_silent_rules 1
 %configure \
   CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%optflags}" ; export CFLAGS ; \
   CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:-%optflags}" ; export CXXFLAGS ; \