> For the longest time I've had the generated autoconf files in CVS, and I > used the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE option in the configure.am so that when I > would checkout and build the source, the make command wouldn't > regenerate the conf files due to timestamp differences. > > Recently, I was told not to use the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro anymore, > because it was unsafe, and even the original author no longer uses it. > I ran into a problem with having the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro on, and > using the texinfo package. I had to do ./configure > --enable-maintainer-mode in order to get the version.texi file created. > > In short, is there a nice way of adding the generated files into CVS and > not having timestamp problems with out this macro?
Ping. Please help. Also, I recently learned that I had to check in the .info and .texi files that are generated. Would that stop the need for the --enable-maintainer-mode? Thanks, Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
