[PATCH] configure: Stop using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

[Julien Cristau]

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 timestamp was lost and files appear to be out-of-date.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 configure.ac 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  and it thinks the generated file is out of date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.

Cheers,
Julien