[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Was: Cannot compile the svn version)
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:18:20 -0600
Christian,
if it works without the maintainermode macro then I guess we don't need
it. I'll comment it out and make a new commit soon.
Incidentally, I notice that the INSTALL file is still in svn. Do we need
that?
John
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:54:00PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 13:23 +0200, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> > I need to look at this, but I don't think --enable-maintainer-mode
> > should be required. Not sure what the answer is off the bat, don't
> > deal much with documentation.
>
> Right now if a user checks the source from svn they have to
> do ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode to be able to compile. It
> appears that this is due to the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro in
> configure.ac. If I remove this then a mere ./configure is enough to be
> able to built the source (including documentation). In the archives of
> automake they advice against this macro. Is there a reason why we have
> it?
>
> Thanks
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