[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Was: Cannot compile the svn version)
- From: "Eitan Isaacson" <eitan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:01 +0200
Ideally we would take the INSTALL file and put in information that is
specific to our library in addition to the standard instructions. If
there is none, then yeah, we could remove it.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM, John J. Boyer <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> Christian Egli
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>> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>>
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>
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