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Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure



On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:31 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> Convincing upstreams to use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro with automake helps.
> 
That would be wrong.

Upstream should ship without this macro, it makes lives for most end-
users much easier -- they change the Makefile.am and either the package
gets updated or a warning is issued that it couldn't be.

The alternative would be their change was silently ignored, which is not
desirable.

Scott
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Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

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