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Maintainer mode
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Maintainer mode
- From: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cgen at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200009080900.UAA00915@walkabout.cygnus.com>
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.