The proposed solution is in the tracker. If this is an autotools based package, and '--disable-silent-rules' doesn't work, you can try to add MAKEOPTS+=" V=1"
Make it so, then.
Created attachment 422602 [details] tdb 1.3.8 build log tdb build log verbose enough
As you can appreciate in build log, tdb-1.3.8 is verbose enough for developer tasks.