[patch] Remove --enable-maintainer-mode from autogen.sh

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Mon Apr 24 08:49:59 PDT 2006


In fact looking at gtk+ and gnome-autogen.sh it looks like
--enable-maintainer-mode is always the default.

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:40 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:30 +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> > When you run autogen.sh, it says:
> > I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
> > to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
> > 
> > But that isn't true. In fact, it passes --enable-maintainer-mode which turns 
> > on a range of options, including some with security implications (granted, 
> > configure tells you that, but it disappears if you ./autogen.sh && make).
> > 
> > I think it should come out.  Please apply this patch.
> > 
> > Brad
> 
> Not sure about this one. --enable-maintainer-mode is obviously the
> default here though perhaps it should be an implicit
> default.  ./configure guarantee you nothing if you don't specify options
> other than being fairly consistent with the last time you
> ran ./configure.
> 
> If others think there is a good reason to take it out then we can do it
> but I see no real issue.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>



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