----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lars Persson" <[email protected]> > To: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:12:23 AM > Subject: RE: [lttng-dev] [PATCH babeltrace] Use autoconf AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. > > It is useful when unpacking the distribution tarballs into another revision > control system that doesn't preserve timestamps. If we retrigger autoconf, > then some developer workstations will fail on the builds because they have > outdated autoconf packages.
That makes sense. Thanks for explaining the rationale to me. Mathieu > > - Lars > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mathieu Desnoyers [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: den 12 mars 2014 20:00 > > To: Lars Persson > > Cc: [email protected]; Lars Persson > > Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH babeltrace] Use autoconf > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Lars Persson" <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: "Lars Persson" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:05:17 AM > > > Subject: [lttng-dev] [PATCH babeltrace] Use autoconf > > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. > > > > > > Give distribution maintainers the option to skip rebuilding autoconf > > > and automake generated files. The default behaviour is still to have > > > the rebuild rules enabled. > > > > I just did some reading on this, and found: > > > > http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2011/09/08/am_maintainer_mode-is-not-cool/ > > > > So, in what use-case is --disable-maintainer-mode useful nowadays ? All > > it seems to do is to stop ensuring that Makefile are consistent with > > changes to Makefile.am. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mathieu > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > configure.ac | 1 + > > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 7a98612..faa3f98 > > 100644 > > > --- a/configure.ac > > > +++ b/configure.ac > > > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config]) AC_CANONICAL_TARGET > > > AC_CANONICAL_HOST AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip]) > > > +AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]) > > > m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])]) > > > > > > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) > > > -- > > > 1.7.2.5 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > lttng-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev > > > > > > > -- > > Mathieu Desnoyers > > EfficiOS Inc. > > http://www.efficios.com > -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev
