On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Allen Briggs wrote:
[snip]
> I think the idea was to have something that's less detailed for when
> you're booting an embedded system and want (a) a quick boot, and (b)
> a clean boot.  But I wasn't around in the BSD/OS community when these
> functions were introduced there (according to the man page's history
> section).
>
> If you really want no output, there's AB_SILENT.

Doesn't that print a spinner during autoconf? (which is good as that's 
what I want - I've had to knobble printf at the moment because I couldn't 
be bothered to convert everything to aprint_*)

-- 
Stephen