Re: generated Makefile wants to run missing after configure (broken --disable-dependency-tracking?)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-08-27 18:45:24 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> The --disable-dependency-tracking option turns off the mechanism that
> updates .deps/*.Po files which contain dependencies for compiled sources
> like C and C++.  This has nothing to do with rebuild rules.
> 
> You can add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to your package, see the manual for
> details.

How can one enable maintainer mode *by default*? (Disabling maintainer
mode is really bad in general, as it can lead to obscure broken builds.)

> Or you can try to build your package and create the tarball on the most
> timestamp-challenged file system that you have.  I don't know of a nice
> way to emulate that, though.

I don't understand what you mean. I think that the files in the tarball
should just be ordered in timestamp order.

> BTW, why '=make' instead of 'make'?

In zsh, =make is used to disable a shell function "make" (it will be
expanded to the full pathname).

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