diff --git a/config/Rules.am b/config/Rules.am
index 115fa348f4..bb188427ea 100644
--- a/config/Rules.am
+++ b/config/Rules.am
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 DEFAULT_INCLUDES = -include ${top_srcdir}/zfs_config.h
 
-# FIXME: Add -Wshadow once everything is working
+AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --silent
 AM_CFLAGS  = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
-
-# Expected defines not covered by zfs_config.h or spl_config.h
 AM_CFLAGS += -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_REENTRANT
 AM_CFLAGS += -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
 AM_CFLAGS += -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DTEXT_DOMAIN=\"zfs-linux-user\"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1ef7003f97..0d30f5e70a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ ZFS_AC_META
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+AM_SILENT_RULES
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([$ZFS_META_NAME], [$ZFS_META_VERSION])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([zfs_config.h], [
 	(mv zfs_config.h zfs_config.h.tmp &&