Re: [Audacity-devel] id3tag issue with audacity-1.2 cvs

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Dave Fancella wrote:
> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#CVS
> 
> It appears that I wasn't totally right in my memory of what I read.  :)  But 
> read the question and long answer, it looks like if you use automake 
> completely (which audacity does not) then Dominic's problem does get solved.  
> Personally, I've done a small amount of work with Makefile.ams, and I'm 
> willing to offer some time to change the build system over to it.  But I seem 
> to remember that you guys made a conscious decision not to use automake in 
> that fashion.  In any case, if you're interested, I've recently gotten fairly 
> acquainted with Audacity's build system and I'd be happy to take care of 
> this.

Dave, that's exactly what I've been looking for!  Read the section on
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE - both its pros and cons.

It seems to me that AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is perfect for the code in
lib-src.  We shouldn't be developing that code anyway; any patches
generally come from upgrading to a new version.  So there's no good
reason we should ever have to call the autotools in lib-src, since
we're essentially operating as users of these packages, not developers.

I think I'll go ahead and do this patch.

- Dominic