Re: [Wigwam-devel] projectctl and autoconf/automake

[Dave B. <da...@ff...>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:43:13AM -0800, Paul Mineiro wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Michael Radford wrote:
> 
> > Ah, well of course, one way to avoid this problem is to not cut and
> > paste AM_MAINTAINER_MODE into your configure.ac in the first place, so
> > the automatic re-automake/autoconf rules are generated by default. :)
> >
> > So never mind....  Maybe I will add a note in the docs warning that
> > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is a bad idea in wigwam projects.
> 
> well, wait, i (might) disagree.
> 
> it's a question of how smart the maintainer mode is, wrt if a different
> version of automake/autoconf is installed on the box than the one
> "intended" to bootstrap the project.  i don't know enough about that
> magic "missing" script that automake uses ... but not enabling maintainer
> mode seems safest in, e.g., a publish situation.
> 
> so chris' suggestion of installing automake/autoconf into the project if
> you're gonna regen configure seems appropriate.

i think there's some confusion... by default, configure will
include rebuild rules that don't require, but will use, the autotools.

AM_MAINTAINER_MODE() changes it to not use locally installed tools
by default, but with manually specifying --enable-maintainer-mode
then the tools become required.

Therefore, use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE() if you plan on checking
in configure.

If you plan on adding the autotools to your project
then I guess you can either omit AM_MAINTAINER_MODE() or include
project_configure_flags=--enable-maintainer-mode
(And this latter is actually the suggestion I prefer at the moment)

- dave