From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Please add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.in
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:45:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070204234555.GA6139@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17862.24607.837254.907122@notabene.brown>
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:37:19AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> From my limited reading, --enable-maintainer-mode effective negates
> the effect of putting AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.in. So I'm
> confused.
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE simply puts the option in there. The default doesn't
change AFAICS.
> 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.
It is primarily useful for packagers. I need to know that my package builds
the same regardless of what's on the system (except for dependencies, of
course) -- by default the builds break if the user has autoconf installed but
none of the other dependencies. (As most of our builds are done fully
automated, there's simply no such control, unless I go to great lengths to
annoy users.) --enable-maintainer-mode simply removes all the magic from the
build and gives the builder control -- which is useful for a distribution
packager, but perhaps less so for a developer.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 13:22 Please add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.in Steinar H. Gunderson
2007-02-04 22:37 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-04 23:45 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2007-02-05 14:41 ` Kevin Coffman
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