Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS Bug? or User error?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Karl Berry wrote:

>    >My understanding is that if you had arranged for getdate.c to be
newer
>    >than getdate.y
>
>FWIW, I sadly have to agree that it's better just to omit the rules for
>rebuilding except with --enable-maintainer-mode.  The reason is that
>importing/checking out from other source trees can easily lose time
>stamps.  (It's worse for the autoconf-rerunning rules than yacc rules,
>but the same principle.)  It's a big hassle in practice with no real
>upside -- the extremely few people who actually want to modify a .y
>source would have no problem saying --enable-maintainer-mode, I imagine.


At the very least, it seems likely that fewer people would feel the
need to ask how to rebuild docs and .y.c rules than currently ask how
to avoid building them or how to fix their bison/texinfo
installations, which would lighten the Q&A load on the mailing lists.

>I changed various Texinfo rebuilding rules to be
>--enable-maintainer-mode for this reason.  It hasn't been a problem and
>has stopped the infrequent but incessant reports about "I tried to make
>texinfo after [importing into my source tree], but it ran autoconf and
>now it doesn't work".
>
>Just reporting my experience ...


Derek

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