Re: [xml] configure.in

[Mike Hommey <mh glandium org>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:57:21PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Small tiny question : why is the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE command commented in 
> > libxml2's configure.in ? In would *really* be nice to have it 
> > uncommented. (note that it is not commented neither in libxml's nor in 
> > libxslt's)
>
>
>   Probably because I uncommented it in my search for fixing some
> configure problems. 
>   Why would you want it enabled ?  Please explain !

AM_MAINTAINER_MODE adds a --enable-maintainer-mode option to the 
configure script which enables the special feature that makes everything 
automagically rebuild on changes to configure.in or Makefile.am (which 
is otherwise activated by default). That means that configure is called 
without this option, autotools won't be called at build time in case of 
timeskews or other cases, and thus avoid having to have autotools 
installed on your system when you *only* want to build the package. It 
is useful for both end-users and packagers (like me for Debian), while 
libxml2 developpers can still call configure with the 
--enable-maintainer-mode option so that the automagically rebuilding 
stuff gets enabled.

Mike

PS: re-reading the message, I'm not quite sure to clearly explain the 
issue...