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

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

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:22:26AM -0800, Paul Mineiro wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Dave Benson wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> right, so, if there is _no_ automake/autoconf locally, "missing" does
> the right thing.
> 
> but what if there is one, with a version mismatch?

sorry, i misread the original intention / got confused
due to this terminology confusion:
the effect of AM_MAINTAINER_MODE() is to *inhibit* maintainer mode,
by default.

- dave