On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:47 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE suppresses the deps we are discussing here. > > > > This allows people to get away with packages containing broken > > timestamps, which introduces risks to upstreams if not handled with > > care and is unhandy for upstream usage. > > When you are upstream, you have probably mechanism/scripts to call > configure with special parameters (e.g. adding '-g3' to CFLAGS, > setting a writable '--prefix', setting another CC). Putting an > '--enable-maintainer-mode' there does not harm. My problem is a bit different (cf. below). > > I am upstream maintainer of a package, which uses AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. The > > most frequently answered question related to building issues is: "Did you > > pass --enable-maintainer-mode?" > > Reducing stability (-> occasional autotool invocations in uncontrolled > environments) and removing features (-> ability to patch configure) just > to avoid some support requests is a bad deal. People (developers) are working on CVS check outs and wonder why the Makefile don't do what they expect rsp. why their autotool-generated files don't get updated, when rebuilding their works. Cause: They forgot --enable-maintainer-mode. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
