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 15:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14777.28070.561930.767231@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14777.27737.706634.552352@casey.transmeta.com>
Doug Evans writes:
> 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.
Plus, turning on maintainer-mode often caused lots of trivial diffs
in lots of Makefile.in's/configure.in's (for me anyway).
When I'm hacking on cgen stuff, I'd rather just not be put the
the trouble of having to deal with all of that. ymmv of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-08 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-08 15:35 Ben Elliston
2000-09-08 15:47 ` Doug Evans
2000-09-08 15:52 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2000-09-09 1:48 ` Ben Elliston
2000-09-09 12:21 ` Doug Evans
[not found] ` <20000908184128.B29784@redhat.com>
2000-09-09 1:48 ` Ben Elliston
2000-09-09 2:00 ` Eric Christopher
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