Re: support standalone libltdl [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-23]

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:00:01PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Noah Misch wrote:
> >Would adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to the libltdl `configure.ac' usefully help
> >shield users from these time stamp problems?
> 
> Yes I think it would.  The question then is: is it okay for libltdl to
> randomly autoreconf bits of itself the first time it is called with
> --enable-maintainer-mode?  We need to see whether Ralf runs into 
> timestamp problems on the patch to follow mine before we worry about it 
> too much though...

Yes; that behavior seems undesirable but not worse than the current behavior.

An Automake feature to specify the name of the maintainer mode option could help
here.