"K. Richard Pixley" wrote: > My question today is... is there any hope of bringing automake generated > Makefiles back into line with the GNU coding standards so that these > applications will work once again?
This is already supported, just add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and the rules to rebuild generated files will be disabled except if explicitly requested by the user by --enable-maintainer-mode. It's a little confusing that the macro is named 'AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' and yet it disables functionality useful to maintainers, but so it goes. It's not the default presumably because there is some controversy as to whether disabling these rules is really a good idea. It's explained in the manaul: <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#maintainer_002dmode>. Brian
