Re: Targets using automake

[Paul Berrevoets]

This should already be taken care of by the macro AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. If you 
use:
    ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
then the autoconf/automake targets are enabled. They should be disabled by 
default.
--
Paul

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> This same applies to targets using autoconf & autoheader.
>
> Derek
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> Derek Price                      CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org 
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> "Derek R. Price" wrote:
>
> > Automake seems to be creating targets by default that make use of
> > automake whether or not the user has automake installed.  Timestamps
> > seem to get fouled up in distribution often enough that I think this is
> > very bad from a maintenance viewpoint (more questions to answer) and
> > very rude to users.
> >
> > Is there some way to place any targets which make use of automake inside
> > a conditional?  i.e. I want the fact that configure discovers that
> > automake is not installed to disable the use of automake in any targets
> > which might use them.  In this case that seems to mean the distdir
> > & Makefile.in targets.  I would actually only like the portion of the
> > distdir target that recalls automake inside the conditional since
> > I would like the target to work otherwise.
> >
> > This could be a very useful tool but without this feature I cannot use
> > it in good conscience.
> >
> > Derek
> >
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