On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:00:01PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Noah Misch wrote: > >Would adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to the libltdl `configure.ac' usefully help > >shield users from these time stamp problems? > > Yes I think it would. The question then is: is it okay for libltdl to > randomly autoreconf bits of itself the first time it is called with > --enable-maintainer-mode? We need to see whether Ralf runs into > timestamp problems on the patch to follow mine before we worry about it > too much though...
Yes; that behavior seems undesirable but not worse than the current behavior. An Automake feature to specify the name of the maintainer mode option could help here.
