From: "Kevin Coffman" Subject: Re: Please add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.in Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:41:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4d569c330702050641s3dfd1bd0ibd3beff851c6b64f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070104132251.GA31023@uio.no> <17862.24607.837254.907122@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: "Neil Brown" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HE524-0005HK-4o for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:41:24 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HE523-0001UI-Hg for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:41:26 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so1286547ugc for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:41:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <17862.24607.837254.907122@notabene.brown> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On 2/4/07, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday January 4, sgunderson@bigfoot.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could you please add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.in? I'd like to set > > --enable-maintainer-mode in the Debian packages (to prevent configure and > > friends from being regenerated from possibly broken or incompatible autofoo), > > but the macro needs to be in place in configure.in (which should probably be > > renamed to configure.ac by now?) for the switch to exist. > > From my limited reading, --enable-maintainer-mode effective negates > the effect of putting AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.in. So I'm > confused. > > And there is a suggestion of that AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is a bad thing: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/maintainer-mode.html > > So I need more information before I know how to proceed. I've been working for a few weeks with this included. As a developer actively making changes to Makefile.am, etc., I just configure with --enable-maintainer-mode. I've run into the timestamp problem in the past on machines with older versions of autoconf where the makefile thinks that autoconf needs to be re-run. That can be a pain. K.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs