On Friday 29 August 2003 10:56 pm, Norman Gray wrote: > Greetings, > > We as a project have decided to go the route of checking > autotool-generated files into our CVS repository, and as a result are > discovering the full subtleties of the consequences of that, in > particular the issues concerning timestamps in checked-out files. I > think I've addressed this problem adequately (and I'm asking for advice > on that), but it might be that automake can fairly straightforwardly > help make this easier.
I suffered similar problems until I discovered AM_MAINTAINER_MODE Adding this to configure.ac disables the rules for the automatic regeneration autotool generated files. Developers can still enable these rules by configuring with --enable-maintainer-mode. Paul
