On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 16:45:17 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > On 12-09-29 04:37 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > Some distros may prefer maintainer mode. A way to appease everyone is: > > > > > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]) > > > > Oh, yeah. That would be the best. > > > The historical background is that mode was added as a CVS tarball > timestamp loss workaround before the git days. Whoever wishes to keep > this workaround should demonstrate that they extract tarballs from CVS > and want to prevent the build to re-create the configuration because the > timestamp was lost and files appear to be out-of-date. > Well for us as I recall it was not so much cvs as - extract tarball - patch configure.ac and configure (or Makefile.am and Makefile.in, whatever) - run configure && make - make tries to run some autotool because the timestamps are screwed up and it thinks the generated file is out of date - that fails because the autotools aren't installed in your build chroot.
Cheers, Julien _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
