Anders Olofsson
2013-11-09 21:57:43 UTC
The attached patch will allow make rules for generated build files (i.e. configure, Makefile.in, ... ) to be skipped.
This is useful when the source is stored without timestamps (for example in CVS or GIT).
When the build rules trigger to regenerate the build files, it tries to use the same autotools version (currently 1.14) as was originally used for the release. Since many of our build machines run Debian Squeeze, they only have autotools 1.11 available and the build fails.
Currently, we have to work around this by touching all the generated files before building to avoid triggering the make rule. With this patch, we would be able to just run configure with --disable-maintainer-mode instead.
The patch sets the default to enable to not change the default behavior.
/Anders Olofsson
Axis Communications
This is useful when the source is stored without timestamps (for example in CVS or GIT).
When the build rules trigger to regenerate the build files, it tries to use the same autotools version (currently 1.14) as was originally used for the release. Since many of our build machines run Debian Squeeze, they only have autotools 1.11 available and the build fails.
Currently, we have to work around this by touching all the generated files before building to avoid triggering the make rule. With this patch, we would be able to just run configure with --disable-maintainer-mode instead.
The patch sets the default to enable to not change the default behavior.
/Anders Olofsson
Axis Communications