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

Robert McQueen robert.mcqueen at collabora.co.uk
Mon Apr 24 15:16:30 PDT 2006


Brad Hards wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 01:49 am, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>> In fact looking at gtk+ and gnome-autogen.sh it looks like
>> --enable-maintainer-mode is always the default.
> Does --enable-maintainer-mode have security implications for Gnome code? 
> 
> If you are adamant about keeping --enable-maintainer-mode, then how about this 
> as an (undesirable, but at least truthfull) documentation only fix:

Isn't this a little gratuitous? At the completion of configuring, you
already get warnings like this:

  NOTE: building with unit tests increases the size of the installed
  library and renders it insecure.

These warnings already exist and are more likely to remain visible on
the screen after confoguration has completed. End users aren't generally
expected to compile from CVS unless they know what they are doing and
are at least able to read, so autogen should behave as the developers
require, and including unit tests and asserts is the right thing for
when you run from autogen.sh, as is having maintainer mode enabled.

> Brad

Regards,
Rob


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