On 01 Mar 2022 14:26, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 01/03/2022 00:54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > We do this in newlib & libgloss, so enable in winsup too for consistency.
> > ---
> >   winsup/configure.ac | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/winsup/configure.ac b/winsup/configure.ac
> > index b8d2100dbe90..6c6e1cb0893a 100644
> > --- a/winsup/configure.ac
> > +++ b/winsup/configure.ac
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ 
> > AC_INIT([Cygwin],[0],[cyg...@cygwin.com],[cygwin],[https://cygwin.com])
> >   AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(..)
> >   AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
> >   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dejagnu foreign no-define no-dist subdir-objects -Wall 
> > -Wno-portability -Wno-extra-portability])
> > +AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
> 
> I'm not sure having maintainer-mode disabled by default for cygwin makes 
> a lot of sense.
> 
> We don't check in the autotools generated files, so for the handful of 
> people in the world who build cygwin from source from the git repo, they 
> should have autotools already installed and this just requires them to 
> know and remember to use '--enable-maintainer-mode'.
> 
> I take the point about consistency, but I'm not sure what the arguments 
> are against using 'AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enabled])' everywhere.

tbh, it makes no diff to me -- merge or skip it, i'm fine either way.
just something i noticed while digging through things.

> (There are no meaningful source archive releases of cygwin.)

yeah, it's a shame because it makes building a cygwin toolchain a pita :p
-mike

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