<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12-09-27 05:12 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1348780339-7748-1-git-send-email-ajax@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">All this does is make it so editing configure.ac or Makefile.am doesn't rebuild the makefiles. Which is just stupid. Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ajax@redhat.com"><ajax@redhat.com></a> --- configure.ac | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index ac3bf26..b37e608 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ RELEASE_DATE="2012-09-05" RELEASE_NAME="Iced Tea" AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2]) -AM_MAINTAINER_MODE # Require xorg-macros minimum of 1.14 for XORG_COMPILER_BRAND in XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS m4_ifndef([XORG_MACROS_VERSION], </pre> </blockquote> This is the right thing to do. A couple of improvements: <ul> <li>A more technical explanation in the commit text. I like to refer to the AM_MAINTAINER mode as a "CVS timestamp losssage workaround". The full background can be found here: <tt> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2003-02/msg00036.html">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2003-02/msg00036.html</a> </tt></li> <li>The autogen.sh file must be changed to remove the --enable-maintainer-mode parameter which belongs to AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. Otherwise you get: <tt> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-maintainer-mode</tt> </li> </ul> In essence we are removing configuration code which was put in place as a work around to a CVS behaviour which caused the downloaded tar file content to always be out-of-date and rebuilt. This workaround is no longer required, if it ever has been. </body> </html>