From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Maintainer mode
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <14777.27737.706634.552352@casey.transmeta.com>
References: <200009080900.UAA00915@walkabout.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00082.html

Ben Elliston writes:
 > After thinking about it a bit, I am ready to propose that the opcodes
 > and sim Makefile.am's be modified so that they no longer rely on
 > `--enable-cgen-maint', but instead use the @MAINTAINER_MODE@
 > substitutions provided by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to determine whether or
 > not to include rules for automatically regenerating files.
 > 
 > The advantages here are obvious: you need not remember an extra option
 > to `configure' and it works more obviously.

I recognize the reasons why one would want to do this.
I didn't do this because it carries extra burdens I wasn't prepared
to dump on binutils/gdb people.