On 05.10.2013 01:00, Eric Blake wrote: > The automake manual recommends against the use of disabling > maintainer mode by default: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#maintainer_002dmode > > because when it is disabled, the user gets no indication if they > touch a file that would normally require a rebuild. Automake > 1.11 changed things so that AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]) will set > the mode to enabled by default; but RHEL 5 still uses automake 1.9, > where AM_MAINTAINER_MODE did not recognize an argument, and > therefore disables maintainer mode by default. Having the default > be different according to which version of automake built the > project is annoying, and I _have_ been bitten on RHEL 5 rebuilds > where the default disabled mode led to silently incorrect builds. > > The automake manual admits that being able to disable maintainer > mode still makes sense for projects that still store generated > files from the autotools in version control; but we have dropped > that for several years now. As such, it's finally time to just > ditch the whole idea of maintainer mode, and unconditionally > rebuild autotools files if a dependency changes, without offering > a configure option to disable that mode. > > * configure.ac (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Drop. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > configure.ac | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > ACK Michal -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list