diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 712eaf0c..5b9360cb 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2492,6 +2492,7 @@ Tobias Grimm <tobias.grimm@e-tobi.net>
  for adding a manual page for 'svdrpsend'
  for adding a missing dependency to the Makefile to avoid error messages in the
  clean-plugins target
+ for adding optional verbose output to the libsi Makefile
 
 Helge Lenz <h.lenz@gmx.de>
  for reporting a bug in setting the 'Delta' parameter when calling the shutdown
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index adb28d59..02348c84 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9477,3 +9477,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added handling shared PMT pids and multiple PMT sections (thanks to Helmut Binder).
 - Changed the country code in the generated ParentalRatingDescriptor from 'DEU' to
   '902' to make it valid for all countries (thanks to Helmut Binder).
+- Added optional verbose output to the libsi Makefile (thanks to Tobias Grimm).
diff --git a/libsi/Makefile b/libsi/Makefile
index e0f9cb0e..b6b45477 100644
--- a/libsi/Makefile
+++ b/libsi/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Makefile for a libsi
 #
-# $Id: Makefile 4.2 2017/05/29 08:33:15 kls Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile 4.3 2020/06/22 14:31:10 kls Exp $
 
 ### The archiver options:
 
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ RANLIB   ?= ranlib
 
 -include ../Make.config
 
+# Output control
+
+ifdef VERBOSE
+Q =
+else
+Q = @
+endif
+export Q
+
 ### The object files (add further files here):
 
 OBJS = util.o si.o section.o descriptor.o
@@ -19,7 +28,7 @@ OBJS = util.o si.o section.o descriptor.o
 
 %.o: %.c
 	@echo CC libsi/$@
-	@$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $<
+	$(Q)$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) -o $@ $<
 
 ### Dependencies: