[PATCH] configure: Stop using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

[Dan Nicholson]

LOn Oct 2, 2012 1:09 PM, "Julien Cristau" <jcristau at debian.org> 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 timestamp was lost and files appear to be out-of-date.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 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   and it thinks the generated file is out of date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.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

--
Dan
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