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Re: maintainer mode
From: |
Eric Siegerman |
Subject: |
Re: maintainer mode |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:54:00 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:17:00PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Warning: I'm going to give the "AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is pure evil
> on a stick" point of view.
> Now there are three cases:
> 1. The user unpacked your package, and then run ./configure and make.
> [...]
> 2. The user modified configure.ac, or Makefile.am, or a sibling.
> [...]
> 3. Your package is broken, it contains some files which are
> [...]
4. The user imported your package into CVS (as I often do).
Because CVS checkouts are done in alphabetical order, foo.in
might well have a later timestamp than its corresponding foo,
without the files' content having changed. So the
maintainer-mode tests charge ahead and try to rebuild foo,
very probably with an incorrect version of the autotool in
question. Kaboom.
>
> Let's see what happens when AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is used:
>
4. The package just builds.
--
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
| | /
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything!
I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
- Anonymous
- first time automaking question, Sean Finney, 2002/04/09
- Re: first time automaking question, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/10
- Re: first time automaking question, Sean Finney, 2002/04/10
- Re: first time automaking question, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: first time automaking question, Steve M. Robbins, 2002/04/11
- Re: first time automaking question, Chadwick A. McHenry, 2002/04/11
- maintainer mode (Was: Re: first time automaking question), Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode (Was: Re: first time automaking question), Chadwick A. McHenry, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode,
Eric Siegerman <=
- Re: maintainer mode, Andy M. Helten, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Andy M. Helten, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Russ Allbery, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Tom Tromey, 2002/04/12
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Bruce Korb, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/12
- Re: maintainer mode, Roger Leigh, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/12
- Re: maintainer mode, Roger Leigh, 2002/04/12