[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] build: Enable maintainer mode

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2012-09-14 at 09:22 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: 
> When running the configure script from autogen.sh, enable the maintainer
> mode by passing --enable-maintainer-mode. This activates some rules to
> regenerate autotools files automatically.
> ---
>  autogen.sh   | 2 +-
>  configure.ac | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
> index 626d213..9d3fb60 100755
> --- a/autogen.sh
> +++ b/autogen.sh
> @@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ autoreconf -v --install || exit 1
>  cd $ORIGDIR || exit $?
>  
>  if test -z "$NOCONFIGURE"; then
> -    "$srcdir"/configure "$@"
> +    "$srcdir"/configure "$@" --enable-maintainer-mode
>  fi
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 184d1ed..1451e83 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([bin])
>  AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
>  AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
>  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> +AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

AFAIK AM_MAINTAINER_MODE disables those rules by default in the first
place, requiring --enable-maintainer-mode to be passed to configure to
enable them again. AFAIR this is to avoid the rules triggering
spuriously from disted tarball trees. Is that still an issue these days?
If so, the change is probably fine, as it's what most autotools projects
seem to do. But the commit message is slightly misleading.


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