[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac and disable by default

[Allan McRae]

On 03/02/15 12:11, Allan McRae wrote:
> We had issues with people trying to build the 4.2.0 tarball while not having
> automake-1.14 installed.  This appears to be due to timestamp issues resulting
> in autotools trying to regenerate various files and then the Makefiles deciding
> they need specific versions of automake.
> 
> This can be fixed by adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([disable]) to configure.ac,
> which means that any build will not try and rebuild any build scripts unless
> explicitly requested.
> 
> Pacman developers can consider using --enable-maintainer-mode when running
> configure to use autotools to update build scripts as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> That is a long explanation for a single line change!
> 

It turns out the bug is due to the TESTS file being updated due to
sync200.py.in creating sync200.py.

This patch is a workaround, but not a real fix (not sure what a real fix
is...).   It does require developers to use --enable-maintainer-mode
when configuring to get all the auto-regen goodness.

Are there objections to applying this patch - at least until a proper
solution is found?

>  configure.ac | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index e0ed3cf..f17ae89 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])
>  AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 foreign])
>  AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
> +AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([disable])
>  
>  LT_INIT
>  LIB_VERSION=`expr lib_current - lib_age`.lib_age.lib_revision
>