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From: Dirk M. <dm...@gm...> - 2003-10-21 09:39:24
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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:28, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Ah, so automake can rerun itself when necessary? That would be great... > is it just a matter of not specifying AM_MAINTAINER_MODE? What's the > advantage of having AM_MAINTAINER_MODE? that automake by default does not regenerate the makefiles. this is useful for tarballs where people unpack them on broken partitions or using wrong system time, which might cause the dependency check to think that Makefile.in needs to be regenerated.. which then requires the exact automake version that the tarball was created with initially. That would usually fail, because nondevelopers usually don't have automake installed, or the wrong version. its just a matter of calling ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode if you are a maintainer. |