[Pixman] [PATCH] Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.

[Soeren Sandmann]

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> writes:

> Disable dependency tracking by default, which can help avoiding
> unnecessary rebuilds due to timestamp skews. But keep dependency
> tracking enabled when configure gets called from autogen.sh, since
> developers probably want automatic rebuilds when relevant files are
> updated.

Hmm, apparently I deleted AM_MAINTAINER_MODE almost four years ago in
0ebb7e31db85a179afdcd731fcc6b0e311084cb1, but I can't remember why and
the commit message doesn't explain.

In 9bcfc0ac547277d3a3f4e5ff0922450566ad8be8, Benjamin deleted
--enable-maintainer-mode from autogen.sh.

> Note: as a package maintainer, I don't really need it, since I'm
> autoreconfing at build-time anyway. The mentioned timestamp skews are
> problematic when one relies on ./configure only and don't depend on
> autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. Such a rebuild would then lead to
> “command not found”-like issues.

I'm not sure I understand the issue. Where would those timestamp skews
come from? The automake manual says something about CVS. Does it apply
to git as well?


Soren