Erik Westrup writes: > Hello, > > I'm cross-compiling ntpd 4.2.8p1 to MIPS. However some times (quite > often) I'm having trouble with the timestamps of the source files > (automake-related files) so that the rules in the generated Makefile > triggers rebuild of some automake stuff, in my case aclocal.m4.
Are you using an NFS filesystem where the clocks aren't synchronized? > The regeneration is very unpleasant since my computer uses a newer > version of autotools (1.11.6) compared to the one that was uses to build > the 4.2.8p1 tarball (1.11.1). The auto-files generated on my computer > does not work at all, failing on missing ar-lib (why whould I need > ar-lib on Linux? Seems to be a wrapper for some Windows lib.exe). > > So what I would love to have is AM_MAINTAINER_MODE added to ntpd so that > I can give the flag --disable-maintainer-mode and get a Makefile that > does not try to rebuild the build system. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/maintainer_002dmode.htm > l > > Can you please add this, it would simply the life of non-maintainers a > lot! :-) > > > Note: > Looking at Makefile's aclocal.m4 target ($(ACLOCAL_M4):*), it seems to > depend on sntp m4 files. I don't even want sntp so I give configure the > flag --without-sntp, but the make rule for aclocal.m4 is still triggered. sntp is a sub-package, so if something is needed by both sntp and ntp it lives once, in sntp/m4/ . We looked at a maintainer mode before and it caused way more problems than it solved. Better to understand what's going on that the Makefiles think they need to re-run the autotools. H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
