[PATCH] configure: Stop using AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 29 11:19:25 PDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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 <ajax at redhat.com>
> ---
>  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],

Some distros may prefer maintainer mode. A way to appease everyone is:

AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])

See here for details:
http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2011/09/08/am_maintainer_mode-is-not-cool/.

-- Chase


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