[Xastir-dev] Re: [Xastir] Install problems -- Cant make with Mandrake 10.0

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> It shouldn't for the release and snapshot tarballs, and he didn't even run
> bootstrap at first so it should have worked.  But on his first attempt
> something tripped the maintainer rules in Makefile which caused autoconf
> to be called from make itself (probably a timestamp issue on configure.ac vs.
> configure or something like that).  That's not good, and perhaps there should
> be a use of AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in the configure.ac file -- that would at least
> prevent the release and snapshot tarballs from having Makefile.in's that would
> cause autoconf/automake to be run.  With a configure script already provided,
> those makefile rules shouldn't be needed.  Users can still run configure
> with an option to turn those rules back on if they're going to do lots of
> configure.ac and Makefile.am hackage, but those will be few and far between.

I agree that only "configure" should be required.  How to get there
is what I don't know.  I must defer to Jack and Chuck on the
autoconf/automake stuff.  It's not my area of expertise.  Taking
this to the xastir-dev mailing list.

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