Hi Anders,

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Anders Olofsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The attached patch will allow make rules for generated build files (i.e. 
> configure, Makefile.in, ... ) to be skipped.
> This is useful when the source is stored without timestamps (for example in 
> CVS or GIT).
>
> When the build rules trigger to regenerate the build files, it tries to use 
> the same autotools version (currently 1.14) as was originally used for the 
> release. Since many of our build machines run Debian Squeeze, they only have 
> autotools 1.11 available and the build fails.
>
> Currently, we have to work around this by touching all the generated files 
> before building to avoid triggering the make rule. With this patch, we would 
> be able to just run configure with --disable-maintainer-mode instead.
> The patch sets the default to enable to not change the default behavior.

The patch has been applied. Please next time send a properly
git-formatted patch so I don't have to hand edit it.

Thanks

Lucas De Marchi
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