silent-rules: fix alignment of less verbose output.

* automake.in (define_verbose_var): Define `$silent_var' as
VAR_ASIS, not VAR_PRETTY, to avoid squashing of multiple
adjacent spaces.
* tests/silent.test: Amend test.
Report by Jan Engelhardt.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36cc6b698..6ad0409e0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2009-04-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	silent-rules: fix alignment of less verbose output.
+	* automake.in (define_verbose_var): Define `$silent_var' as
+	VAR_ASIS, not VAR_PRETTY, to avoid squashing of multiple
+	adjacent spaces.
+	* tests/silent.test: Amend test.
+	Report by Jan Engelhardt.
+
 2009-04-25  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
 	manual: fix trivial grammar errors.
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index fe2ff3d78..20ef3bd2e 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -1158,12 +1158,15 @@ sub define_verbose_var ($$)
     my ($name, $val) = @_;
     my $var = verbose_var ($name);
     my $pvar = verbose_private_var ($name);
+    my $silent_var = $pvar . '_0';
     if (option 'silent-rules')
       {
 	# Using `$V' instead of `$(V)' breaks IRIX make.
 	define_variable ($var, '$(' . $pvar . '_$(V))', INTERNAL);
 	define_variable ($pvar . '_', '$(' . $pvar . '_$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY))', INTERNAL);
-	define_variable ($pvar . '_0', $val, INTERNAL);
+	Automake::Variable::define ($silent_var, VAR_AUTOMAKE, '', TRUE, $val,
+				    '', INTERNAL, VAR_ASIS)
+	  if (! vardef ($silent_var, TRUE));
       }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/silent.test b/tests/silent.test
index 4eb11d538..73d6bffec 100755
--- a/tests/silent.test
+++ b/tests/silent.test
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ cat stdout
 grep ' -c' stdout && Exit 1
 grep ' -o foo' stdout && Exit 1
 grep mv stdout && Exit 1
-grep 'CC .*foo\.' stdout
+grep 'CC    .*foo\.' stdout
 grep 'CC .*bar\.' stdout
 grep 'CC .*baz\.' stdout
 grep 'CC .*bla\.' stdout