LOn Oct 2, 2012 1:09 PM, "Julien Cristau" <<a href="mailto:jcristau@debian.org">jcristau@debian.org</a>> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 16:45:17 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > > On 12-09-29 04:37 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > > > Some distros may prefer maintainer mode. A way to appease everyone is: > > > > > > > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]) > > > > > > Oh, yeah. That would be the best. > > > > > The historical background is that mode was added as a CVS tarball > > timestamp loss workaround before the git days. Whoever wishes to keep > > this workaround should demonstrate that they extract tarballs from CVS > > and want to prevent the build to re-create the configuration because the > > timestamp was lost and files appear to be out-of-date. > > > Well for us as I recall it was not so much cvs as > - extract tarball > - patch <a href="http://configure.ac">configure.ac</a> and configure (or Makefile.am and Makefile.in, > whatever) > - run configure && make > - make tries to run some autotool because the timestamps are screwed up > and it thinks the generated file is out of date > - that fails because the autotools aren't installed in your build > chroot. Yes, that's what I was thinking of. -- Dan